The Seven Days of Creation: A Novel

515 pp. In The Seven Days of Creation Vladimir Maksimov boldly and mercilessly bared all the hypocrisy, meanness and perversity of Soviet regime… The nature of the darkness that you decided to illuminate doesn't accept any light at all. Let it get worse, but worse equally for all, that's the principle of that darkness. The tenet ‘you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' has turned into a system and at that everybody does strive to betray and deceive one's fellowman… Those who write poetry will never be right but those who write laws will be right always. And the laws are being written by nonentities, miserable ciphers, who are incapable to burn but can only smoulder, who know no love and to whom the family is just the cell of society. And he who lives by these bastardly laws, at the end of his life's journey, looking back will see behind nothing but emptiness.