The book is the first in Russia publication of selected plays by the modern German playwright and novelist Botho Strauss (born in 1944). Depth, subjectivity and sophistication of the perception of the inner world of a contemporary, an attempt to understand the causes of mental crises of the individual in close connection with the analysis of the social climate distinguish Strauss, a neo-romantic postmodernist, from playwrights of other areas of German theater.