Mikhail Weller’s collection of modernist stories “I Want to Be a Janitor,” rejected by all editors, was published in the Soviet Union for five years and created a sensation. The author was admitted to the USSR Writers' Union on the recommendation of Boris Strugatsky and Bulat Okudzhava. The hundredfold reprinted bestsellers “Legends of Nevsky Prospect” and “The Adventures of Major Zvyagin” were created in completely different genres. The theory of energy evolutionism, first outlined in Weller’s treatise “All about Life,” was awarded a medal at the World Philosophical Forum in Athens. Weller's new novel is written in line with the main humanistic tradition of Russian classics: the thirst for justice of the “humiliated and insulted.”