Thirst for music

A secret agent of the Soviet intelligence and a bohemian modernist, a professor of theology in Berlin and the "sixth of the group of five", a man in a German officer's uniform and a hermit archaeologist studying the culture of Tripoli - if someone wrote a fictionalized biography of Viktor Petrov, this book would not be inferior b thrillers to spy novels. But while the state archives refuse to provide information about this extraordinary figure, we are left to reread the works of Dr. Paradox, on the pages of which the sharp contradictions of his time are reflected, emotions are raging, and suppressed passions are simmering, Vincent van Gogh and Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke and Vaclav Rzevusky come to life.