A thirty-year-old mathematics professor discovers that when he wakes up and falls asleep, he unconsciously tries to commit suicide. What kind of desire sits inside him, or is it instilled in him from the outside?.. Chandler’s fate is almost decided; today at sunset he will be shot for a crime that he did not commit. Although it was not he who raped Margaret Flersham, but a demon who seized power over the body, who will believe him, because this does not happen in pharmaceutical factories... The novel “The Walk of a Drunkard” was translated by V. Marchenko.