Not born for war

The essay book "Not Born for War" by Artem Chapai is an honest, one might say, naked story about the internal transformations of a person who made the choice to become a soldier. The author leads us along a worldview and psychological map from pacifism to radicalism on the verge of despair. And only such attentive self-reflection, devoid of pathos, desires to embellish or please the reader, explains how it is precisely the existential choice that leads to inevitable changes, when all previous beliefs must be tested by a new reality.