Казус Кукоцкого

The hero of "The Kukotsky Case" is a brilliant doctor, what is called the grace of God. This opens up enormous novel possibilities for the author, because a person of this profession looks into the abyss every day: the border between health and ill health is the same border between life and death, freedom and lack of freedom. The time of action in the novel is the forties and sixties: the end of the Stalin era, the defeat of genetics, the death of a tyrant, the thaw, the first jazzmen. Corporeality and, it would seem, the most crude physiology (here the author is not afraid to go to the very edge) are closely intertwined with the theme of fate - in its high, almost ancient Greek understanding.