About the book: 2023 / To those geniuses of Russian literature to whom the author dedicates his book, it is worth adding one more: Pushkin. Because Andonovsky’s novel is exactly what one of the main poems existing in the Russian language, “The Prophet,” is written about. Its finale: “Arise, prophet, and see, and heed, / Be fulfilled by my will / And, bypassing the seas and lands, / Burn the hearts of people with the verb,” exhaustively formulates the meaning of what today’s Macedonian writer, ours, wrote about two hundred years after Pushkin contemporary. A philosophical novel, a theological novel, a novel in which a frenzied, withering temperament gives way to thoughtful meditativeness... The scene of the protagonist’s verbal duel with his publishing agent is incredible, fantastic, you stop breathing…