About the book: 2016 / The proposed work is a continuation of the book "In the Middle of Time, or Map of My Memory", published in 2015 with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Union of Russian writers. "In the Middle of Time" was noticed by critics. The new book is also a series of essays and essays connected by a single idea and a single view of the author on the world, the fate of the author, his intellectual travels to different parts of Russia and different countries (from Argentina to Germany). Therefore, its name partly echoes the previous one. Most of the texts were published in the online magazine Gefter.