About the book: 2023 / The Black Poodle is an incarnation that Mephistopheles uses to get into a person’s house. He can give a person intelligence and conviction, will and fearlessness, but he will still deceive him and continue only his game. Two friends, without expecting it themselves, become participants in the finale of an old story and the questions that their new acquaintances live with are eternal questions that guide each of us through the lives. An adherent of a new sect and a Christian clergyman, together with one who is far from questions of faith, once experienced an incredible feeling in front of the faces of old icons and now would like to remember it again. But the black poodle has his own reasons and he will nominate and give the prize to something completely different.