Flowers for Elrinon

"Daniel Kiza Flowers for Elternon, are included in the mandatory reading program in American schools. This is the only story in the genre of science fiction, the author of which was twice awarded first for the story, and then for an affair with the same name, hero, plot.
Thirty -three -year -old Charlie Gordon - mentally retarded. At the same time, he has a job, friends and an irresistible desire to learn. He agrees to take part in a dangerous scientific experiment in the hope of becoming smart ...
This fantastic story has a striking psychological strength and makes us think about universal moral issues: do we have the right to put experiments on each other, what results this can lead to and what price we are ready to pay for becoming "the most intelligent" . And lonely?
To the questions that M. Bulgakov also raised in the "Dog Heart" and J. London in Martin Elena ", Daniel Kiz gives his unambiguous answer.

Once this was considered science fiction.
Now it is perceived as one of the most human works of modern times, as a novel of piercing psychological strength, as filigree development
Topics of love and responsibility.
Changes with Charlie Gordon occur before our eyes, here and now. But in the end - everything is simple. Geniuses and idiots are two sides of one medal. They have different IQ,
Life conditions differ, but they are similar in one - often both are endlessly lonely. And the price for a dream - becoming smart - becomes too high.
Charlie has a double - the mouse of Elrinon, only Charlie understands the behavior of the mouse and the fact that he himself is assigned the same role of the experimental mouse is no more. To him
bad, and the finale is predictable. The heart is compressed and tears flow ...

I put a bouquet of daisies on his grave and cried for a long time.

The novel was repeatedly filmed in different countries, in 1968 the film Charlie was shot in the United States, and actor Cliff Robertson was awarded Oscar, in 2006 was shot
A film in France, in 2007 a performance was staged in the Alexandrinsky Theater of the same story, a film in Japan was released in 2015, and in the same year
The performance was staged in the Such Theater The effect of Charlie Gordon, directors Igor Sergeev, Varya Svetlova.

leaves no one indifferent