What dreams does someone have who hasn’t received letters in prison for twelve years? What wisdom is hidden in books that no one has read? What fates crumble on the graves of famous composers? What kind of music does a murderer hear, what kind of music does a madman hear, what kind of music does someone who no longer wants or can’t be a great musician hear? In "Winter Reise" there will be disappointed pianists who are not afraid to disappoint the public, heartless swindlers and incorrigible music lovers, killers and cuckolds, one heroic horse, Vatican functionaries, escaped love, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote the impossible "Counterpoint", Franz Schubert, whose “Winter Reise” cycle permeates this entire book from beginning to end, and the great Rembrandt, who created a portrait of an amazing fate. Amsterdam, Vienna, Treblinka, Paris and Oslo, Catalonia and Israel, Vatican and Bosnia; century number XVII, XX, XXI are mixed and the brighter, the more deceptive they flicker. Jaume Cabret (b. 1947) is the largest star of Catalan literature, winner of numerous awards; his books have been translated into dozens of languages and their circulation exceeds a million copies. His collection "Winter Reise", which received the prestigious Catalan literary prize Crítica Serra d'Or (2001), is the story of desperate, and sometimes despairing people who, at the top of their voices, or under their breath, or even behind the scenes, each sing their own song, and everything sounds like a polyphonic canon, incredible counterpoint, a bow to Bach, Schubert, impossible music that no one except Cabret will write. For the first time in Russian!