This second expanded edition of Nikolay Eudokimov’s novel, an author whose works are known to readers both in our country and abroad: “The Necessary Man”, “The Passionate Square”, and others. The novel can be classified within a traditional literary genre of “demonology”—a devilry tale—or as a fantastic parable, since it also features certain unreal characters living in the beyond.
The hero reads the Book of Fates, can move from one time to another, and has the ability to see the past and the present: the universal Flood and Noah’s Ark, the betrayal of Adyui-Iuda, the Great Patriotic War and the eighties of the 20th century. The author ponders the nature of evil, freedom of choice, and the moral values on which life is built.