Dmitry Lipskerov's magnificent new novel is not subject to traditional annotation. Jokingly speaking, its contents are described by an old student joke.: "Everything is fine except bees," said the professor. Then he thought about it and added: "However, and bees x@&ny..." "Felix killed Lara" is by no means a detective story, as it might seem from the deliberately simplified title. In this vein, the Bible could be titled "Cain killed Abel." But, of course, everything is much more complicated and not so straightforward at all. Lipskerov composed his dystopia during the war, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The novel is full of war and the grotesque. His hidden spring is that the reading, the very moment of immersion in the novel, is also the hero of the book. Today, the grotesque is still just a leaden cloud hanging over the reality in which the reader lives. But tomorrow the sky may fall to the ground - and they will become indistinguishable. Dmitry Lipskerov is a modern European writer, playwright, author of the novels "The Last Dream of the Mind", "Forty Years of Changzhoe", "Relatives", the novels "Waiting for Solomey", "Fingers for Caroline". He graduated from the Shchukin Higher Drama School. Lipskerov began his creative career as a playwright. His most famous dramatic work is the play "School with a theatrical bent", staged in Lenkom in 1990 under the name "School for Emigrants". Alexander Zbruev, Alexander Abdulov, Oleg Yankovsky and Nikolai Karachentsov played in Lipskerov's play. The new novel "Felix killed Lara" was written in Berlin, where the author now permanently resides.