“Sankya” is the story of a simple provincial lad, Sasha Tishin, who, had he been born in different times, might well have become an engineer or a worker. But the “leaden vileness” of the present day gives him no such chance, and Sasha joins a youth revolutionary party in the hope of changing the world for the better. A classic psychological novel, which in itself is already a great rarity today, compelling evidence that we are witnessing the birth of a new original writer.