"Istoriya prokatyvayetsya po zhivym lyudyam, kak katok. Kak ogromnoye strashnoye koleso, kogo-to ostavlyaya tselym, a kogo-to razryvaya nadvoye. Chelovek �do� sloma epokhi i on zhe �posle� sloma {u2014} odin li eto chelovek, ili rozhdayetsya nepredskazuyemyy kentavr, sposobnyy na geroystvo i podlost' odnovremenno? V novom romane Dmitriya Bykova �Iks� rasskazana potryasayushchaya istoriya velikogo sovetskogo pisatelya, poteryavshego polovinu svoyey lichnosti na puti k slave. Bykov vskryvayet poistine dantovskiye krugi ada, spryatannyye v odnoy dushe, i dazhe nakhodit volshebnuyu formulu bessmertiya{u2026}"--Publisher's website