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The book of selected works of the classic of Russian literature of the 20th century Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897-1986) included the "Youth Romance", the novel Cube and "Werner has already been written, as well as selected stories, starting from the earliest, marked in 1917, and ending with the story "Sleeping", written a year before death. Whatever Kataev wrote about - about the battles and everyday life of the First World War or the civil war, about the dungeons of the Cheka, in which he himself and his hero only miraculously managed to avoid the execution, or about youthful love, about the years of the NEP or the Great Patriotic War, - He does this with his inherent stylistic brilliance and psychological depth