About the book: 1964 / "The Search" is an early novel by Charles Snow. This book is of considerable interest both in itself and as the beginning of the future - it is immediately followed by a large series of novels, “Aliens and Brothers.” The novel “The Search” is written in the usual manner of first-person narration for Charles Snow. But this is not only the life story of Arthur Miles, told by himself, but also a detailed picture of English reality. The combination of autobiographical intonation with a wide coverage of the depiction of social life is characteristic of all of Snow’s work - this combination also determines the artistic structure of “The Search.” The novel takes place in the twenties and the very beginning of the thirties. The environment is the intelligentsia, and above all physicists, from world-famous quantities to young people making their way to the heights of science. A pathetic assessment of the state of the natural and exact sciences during the period in which the action of the novel unfolds constitutes a kind of dominant feature of this work. All the more noticeable is the drama of the action, indicating that there is no correspondence between the rapid development of scientific thought and the possibilities of a person in a bourgeois society to build his life the way he would like.…