What do we know about the elite? About the intellectual elite? We are sure that these people are celestial beings who know no problems. Meanwhile, anything can happen. The hero of the novel “The Parrot in the Bear’s Den” is a child prodigy, a twenty-one-year-old teacher of Arabic at a prestigious university and an aspiring translator – neither at first, nor at second, nor at third glance does he give the impression of a successful person, much less an elite one. He has a million problems: youth, poverty, pathological fear of beautiful women... He would like to be someone else! But most of all he would like to blow up this uncomfortable world in which he feels so ridiculous, downtrodden, lonely and so small...