We have before us a luxurious literary game, the likes of which have not been seen for a long time. Not a hoax, not a parody, not just an elegant stylization, but rather a witty and skillfully executed attempt to once again write “A Hero of Our Time,” as if the original, included in the school curriculum and therefore more or less well-known, either never existed at all, or , on the contrary, formed the face of Russian literature for centuries, became a kind of obligatory canon, knowing the existence of which, it is impossible, and there is no need to write any other way. Max Frei