Alexander Zinoviev is a scientist, thinker, artist, poet, author of the prophetic "Yawning Heights", first published in Switzerland in 1976. This “sociological,” in the words of the writer, novel, bitingly and mercilessly exposing the vices of Soviet society, brought him stunning, sensational fame. A bright, sincere, completely “special” book, combining both a scientific treatise and an outstanding literary work, was almost immediately translated into more than twenty foreign languages.