Dmitry Lipskerov's novel was awaited with great anticipation for almost three years. Each new work in the bright bibliography of this writer is doomed to become a bestseller, and therefore readers were tormented by the natural question of how Lipskers would “draw them in” this time. “Every Captain is a Prima Donna” is a wise and unusual book, the unique author’s style of which turns reading into... - a truly unforgettable experience. A mix of literary genres, real events and phantasmagoria, an unsteady convention of the border between the description of reality and fantasy, deep internal monologues, grotesque, hyperbolic, cyclical plot... There is everything - and even a little more: fans of intellectual prose will undoubtedly appreciate this very “little” dignity. And even the usual phrase “everyone will find something in this book” in this case takes on a special meaning. Classic? Absurd? Phantasmagoria? Philosophy? Esoterics? Psychotherapy? “Everything” is indeed revealed in the novel, but in precisely measured proportions, which is why it is especially Lipskerian! — harmonious and fascinating.