“Once everything has been invented by someone, the question of authorship loses all meaning,”—it says in this book, whose author and heroes have long no longer needed introductions. For many years “Between Two Chairs” has been something like public property, yet new and new readers keep searching for this book on bookstore shelves in vain. The present edition is the seventh in the series—unlikely to satisfy everyone’s needs, but it will help at least partially solve the problem of the perennial shortage of books available for sale.
At the very beginning the author promises: “...I promise not to let you have peace, rest, or tranquility. I promise to deceive you at every step. I promise to boggle your mind so that the most ordinary things will become mysterious and, in the end, incomprehensible. I promise to lead you into every dead end you meet on the way, and, finally, I promise the collapse of all hopes and illusions—and the complete undermining of Life Experience and Common Sense.” What about it? Go ahead…