About the book: year / "Lieutenant Ulashin sat on a bench, facing the window, from which a life-giving stream of air floated towards him, and with it a strange, drunken , a wild vision of the bestial element. The dogs were running wild in the yard, as if in a paroxysm of rage. The lieutenant's thoughts stopped listening and began to perform the same unbridled, frightened dance to this dog music. It seemed to him that some kind of crazy flame was blazing outside the window, pulling red tongues towards him. He fidgeted restlessly in his own thoughts, as if in old rags.».