`Oh Arrabal! How have you managed to remain so shamelessly entertaining? How did you manage to touch my soul with a completely absurd story of an absolutely unreal hero? - wrote Milan Kundera.

The second book of the famous Fernando Arrabal, published in Russia (the first - the novel `The Red Madonna` was published by the publishing house `Text` in 2002). According to the author, it is impossible to present the content of this Kafkaesque picaresque novel, woven from a jeweled play on words. One thing is certain - this is one of the best novels of the writer, which combines the traditions of surrealism and picaresque novel, and in the “hospital for the incurables”, where the action of this tragicomic phantasmagoria takes place, it is easy to recognize the features of modern society, as if reflected in a crooked mirror.