Dear Kornej Ivanovich, now Pravda reports that you have also died. This allows me to speak to you in a more comradely manner - now and then I believe I have also died. This is written by the author Dobytschin to the universally admired literary critic, translator, and children's book author Chukovsky. He writes this years after his own supposed death. The small Moscow writer Prischow also writes to a universally admired author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was a model for a character in his novel "The Demons." The confused letter is addressed to the one who grew up with him, and to the one who now uses Prischow's life as material. The alcoholic Prischow does not hold back with anti-Semitic invectives against Dostoevsky - yet again he seeks the understanding of the great author. Finally, the sick man also makes his voice heard.