IT CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT NARCOTIC OR PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, THE USE OF WHICH IS DANGEROUS TO HEALTH. THEIR ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING ENTAILS CRIMINAL LIABILITY. An important part of Sasha Filipenko's new novel is the crossword puzzle. There is a rigid formal framework in which the acting hero, for all his free will and creative unpredictability, must keep within. Otherwise, the plan will not work out to the end. The second completely formal reception is elephants in the city. It's a hackneyed metaphor that doesn't allow for multiple readings: elephants are problems so huge that they can't be overlooked. But it turns out — is it possible? And the hero of the novel, a stand-up satirist, spends his life trying to wake up his fellow citizens from their troubles. The system he is fighting is trying to turn him into a problem for the townsfolk, to "make him an elephant." But the hero has a powerful resource of resistance — he is in love. First mutually, then unrequitingly — the beloved betrays him. The problems facing the hero are unsolvable, beyond human capabilities. Is there a magic remedy for dehumanization? 34 horizontally: A feeling characterized by deep attachment and longing for another person. Six letters. The second is "U", the fifth is "V".