About the book: 1969 / ... she waved her scarf, then, drooping, went to the car. At that moment he wanted to jump overboard and swim to the shore. Hardly, mortally, he later regretted that he had not done this. The figure on the shore disappeared. The car disappeared. Finally, the pier also disappeared. And then some strange wild sound struck Severin. With his whole body leaning toward the receding shore, Cupid howled bitterly, inconsolably, desperately, as if for a dead man.…