Each book is the embodiment and recreation—in text—of the writer’s inner world. The richer that world is, and the closer it touches the world of other people, the greater the response the work finds. Every talented book is a contribution to understanding the reasons for success or failure in the life of human society. That is what makes the book truly interesting. A writer may not set out to pursue some “super-task,” yet—regardless of the author’s will—this task is embodied in the work. Whether the author of "The Story of Andrei Petrov" managed to evoke such a response in the reader can be known only after reading the novella addressed to a broad circle of literature lovers.