The city is doomed. Burdened by evil, or forty years later

“The main task of the novel“ Grad is doomed ”not at first, but gradually formed in this way: to show how, under the pressure of life circumstances, the worldview of the young man radically changes, how he passes from the standpoint of a solid -stone fan to a state of a person, as if hanging in an airless ideological Space, without any support under the feet. ”
“ Injured by evil ”-the last novel by ABS, the most difficult, even, perhaps, the most unusual and probably the most unpopular of all. The authors themselves, however, considered him just among the best-too many mental strength, thoughts, disputes and the most favorite ideas were invested in him to treat him differently. Here, an old, years cherished dream to write a historical novel - in the manner of Lyon Feikhtwanger and from the perspective of a person who does not want to believe in the existence of objective and reliable historical truth (“not all this was not so, not so”) There is even an attempt to cautious forecast for the next forty years - even if the originally doomed to failure, because there is nothing more difficult than predicting what will happen to us for one human life (either it is a matter of building forecasts for five hundred years, and even better “For a thousand).”
Boris Strugatsky. Comments on the passed