Skeptical intellectual experiments in the genre of the novel are designed to prove that nothing can be proven, that truth is multiple, and life is paradoxical and tragic. At the center is a suffering hero-ideologist, engaged in intellectual balancing act and complaints about a failed life, as well as a certain global philosophical existential opposition. The opposition of spirit and body, the opposition of reality and imagination. All paintings are convincingly plastic, voluminous and convex. Compositionally, the novel is a continuous stream of memories and reflections. The hero does nothing. He walks and babbles about the topic. He babbles firmly and literary. This is real Russian prose of very high quality.” (Alexander Ageev, Russian Journal)