Lyudmila Ulitskaya called her new book very provocatively - non-prose. And this is partly disingenuous, because scripts, personal diaries, memoirs, and plays are read as a single narrative, the theme of which is life as theater. Paper, inseparable from the craft of writing. “Reality escapes. The border is felt more and more acutely, and suddenly we discover how important the details of the personal past are, how much has been given - both joys, and suffering, and knowledge. The great theater of life, in which the main thing that remains is the text. I deal with texts. Time will tell which of them are significant and which are not.” (Lyudmila Ulitskaya)