This work is about the time of the nineties, well known to the generation of the author .. Moon boy is a hero of philosophical and psychological prosaic thing with a detective story, which is difficult to assign a genre name, which was written in his preface by Andrei Bitov at the beginning of the two thousandths. Recently, a lot of debate and talk about the death of literature, the failure of the modern novel. The works are called commercial, then booker ... All this idle talk . Literature lives by different rules. Freedom and unlimited space of the creative personality is an indisputable thing . Alexander Short prose, which is outside the genre, this is interesting . It refutes all the talk about the death of literature as a civilization, as a culture."