In Gennady Gor's new book we encounter a rare genre fusion. A fairy tale - and a treatise on the most complex issues of the philosophy of art, memoirs - and science fiction, literary history - and a detective story... The problems of the novel are just as complex. The author reflects on time and immortality, on the nature of words and the paradoxes of logic. Like any fairy tale, Gennady Gor's novel is gifted with the light of dreams. It is permeated with a desire for creativity and knowledge, it affirms the possibility of harmonious unity of man, nature and culture. Without such unity, neither happiness nor immortality of humanity is possible. The prototype of this immortality and happiness appears to us in art, in folk tales, in the creations of poets and artists. That is why the main character of the novel is Ophelia, a woman-book, a romantic symbol of poetry, fairy tales, dreams...