ILLEGAL CONSUMPTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES IS HARMFUL TO HEALTH, AND THEIR ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. The end of independent Catalonia has come, Barcelona has fallen, soldiers of the Bourbon army are prowling the streets, and participants in the defense of the city are facing arrest. Marty Souviria from Barcelona is a conscientious rogue, an unwitting traitor and a cowardly hero, the last disciple of the great French fortification theorist Sebastien de Vauban, a member of the unique brotherhood of military engineers, a future bilious memoirist, and meanwhile a wounded soldier who has lost everything, flees Barcelona. However, he will not reach his destination immediately: for some people, seven miles is not a detour, so Souviria's path from Catalonia to Vienna lies through South Carolina (where he will participate in another war, brilliantly take the city, find a new love and almost die), and then through France (where his life will turn out to be even more interesting). In addition, ahead of him lies a grandiose revenge on his sworn enemy and a journey to the edge of the world. Albert Sanchez Pinol is an anthropologist, one of the largest and most distinctive stars of Catalan literature. His novel "The Vanquished", the first book about Marty Souviria, an adventurous novel, a military epic and a high tragedy, sold more than 250,000 copies in Spain, was translated into 16 languages and received an award from the newspaper El Periodico. "Woe to the Vanquished" is a dazzling sequel to "The Vanquished", a picaresque saga in the best traditions of "Gil Blas", "Simplicissimus" and "The Adventures of the Brave soldier Schweik", an epic tragedian covering the entire European politics of the XVIII century, and the story of the adventures of a reluctant adventurer, cynic and scoffer who lost his loved ones, home, homeland, But he hasn't lost his talent for laughing. For the first time in Russian!