We always invent new titles—and with them, new formats. This, too, is part of Kalmykov’s world: he loved to create concepts that had never existed before. In the classical sense, a mystery is a staging of biblical scenes combined with elements of everyday, often humorous stories. In this case, we can say that instead of a biblical narrative, we take Kalmykov’s manifesto as our foundation. It is a text in which he describes what our future will be.

And this future is absolutely beautiful, because above all it contains immortality (spelled exactly this way—with a “z,” as Kalmykov himself wrote it), and all the problems that concern us now—war, political regimes, imperfections, our own and those of others—simply disappear. It is also our manifesto, because “The Appearance” is the world premiere of the Method of Practical Genius, which we are developing based on Kalmykov’s texts.

Therefore, the event presenting this “First Volume of a Novel in a Thousand Volumes” is precisely a mystery-manifesto. It is not simply a book presentation. “The Appearance” has a literary-expositional nature, because the very essence of the book was predetermined by the way it would be presented, and the presentation of the book was determined by its content, its form, and, of course, its essence.

Why is this book important? Because Kalmykov’s texts are an inexhaustible source of true freedom of thought, imagination, and spirit. They are filled with a belief in genius, in the finitude and insignificance of the ordinary and mediocre, and in the infinity of art and joyful play.