The main character of Cincinnati C. is brought to trial for "gnosiological abhorrence" and "non-transparency", that is, it differs from others and is incomprehensible to them. There is a hint in the text that his father was like this, although his mother almost did not consider him. Another hint reports about other supernatural properties of the hero: "went down on the chubby air" - flew? The trial of the hero is conducted according to all the rules of the absurd, and the death sentence is camouflaged by the phrase: "with the kind permission of the public, you will wear a red cylinder" . As the action progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that the world around is illusory, and the real person is only the hero. However, the hero climbs the scaffold, where he must be cut off head. The authorities mockingly announce that "today evening goes with a huge success of the topicality of the opera-farce" Shrink, Socratic "," that is, the hero must passively and stoically die, like Socrates .. Nevertheless, at the last moment, the hero refuses non-resistance, and the very act of disobedience saves him from the power of the illusory world: “why am I here? why do I lie so? — and asking himself this simple question, he answered by standing up and looking around ... and Cincinnati went, .. And he went to the place where he had heard voices saying that he was the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one who was going to be the one. The novel was written in Russian during the Berlin period of the writer’s life.