About the book: 1990 / “We have already lived so long in this world that philosophers and moralists doubted the existence of friendship, and poets and novelists put it into books and they disfigured her so much that anyone who has not seen her in person will in no way recognize her. In fact, is it really possible to call these connections, based on petty calculations of pride, selfishness or mutual benefits, the sacred name of friendship? We see people who live twenty, thirty years in good harmony, act together, never quarrel, trust one another, and we say, these are true friends…»