In the new book by Gennady Gore, we meet with a rare genre alloy. A fairy tale - and a treatise on the most complex questions of the philosophy of art, memoirs - and science fiction, the history of literature - and detective... It's also a bit of a romance.. The author reflects on time and immortality, the nature of the word and the paradoxes of logic. Like any fairy tale, the novel by Gennady Hora is illuminated by the light of a dream . It is permeated with a desire for creativity and knowledge, it asserts the possibility of the harmonious unity of man, nature and culture. Without such unity, neither the happiness nor the immortality of mankind is possible. The prototype of this immortality and happiness is to us in art, in folk tales, in the creations of poets and artists. That is why the main character of the novel is Ophelia, a woman-book, a romantic symbol of poetry, fairy tales, dreams...