The Gorenstein Puzzle, assembled by Yuri Veksler, answers many questions about the "Dostoevsky of the 20th century," as Gorenstein was called in the West, and inevitably attracts more and more reading about him. This book is the first to publish documents related to the creative relationship between Friedrich Gorenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky, the writer's polemic with Grigory Pomerants, articles by Yefim Etkind and Shimon Markish, interviews with Benedikt Sarnov and other authors, important interviews with John Glad, Viktor Yerofeyev, Margarita Hamlin and others. In addition, the book includes memoirs by Andrei Konchalovsky, Mark Rozovsky, Paola Volkova, as well as memoir sketches by Friedrich Gorenstein himself. Everything adds up to a synthesis of the portrait and self-portrait of the writer...