Climax. About the vicissitudes of life. Epstein M.N., Yuryenen S.

This book is about the highest points of experience, “climaxes”, when you almost instantly comprehend yourself, society, human nature, revealed on the faces, on slots. Mikhail Epstein and Sergey Yuryenen - friends from youth - reflect on the turning points of their life and share the experience of the strongest experiences.

The book included about ninety small stories on different topics-from love-romantic and family to social, religious and creative. The climaxes that the authors write about arise on the cross of personal plots with the events of the great history and universal spiritual problems that suddenly receive a concrete embodiment in the emergency situations they have experienced. The storytellers hope that this unique in the acuity of introspection the book will help readers better realize the climax of their own life. Mikhail Epstein is a philosopher, culturalist and literary critic, linguist, essayist. The author of the books “Irony of the Ideal” and “Projective Dictionary of the Humanities”, published in the publishing house “UFO”.

Sergey Yuryenen - a prose writer, translator, journalist, publisher, author of publications in the journal New Literary Review.