The professor's heart is an encyclopedia of passions hidden behind bibliographies and footnotes. In "Doctor Seraphicus" it pulses in unison with the explosive waves of history. It rushes to lecture halls and libraries, but it cannot avoid parks and trendy cafes, cozy ravines and wild alleys. Is it difficult to come across a hipster in the 1920s? What is easier - to fall in love with such a girl or with the city? How to remain Ukrainian intellectuals after the invasion of "good Russians"?.. V. Domontovich and his bizarre, but convincing characters know the answers. One of the most mysterious Ukrainian novels is being published for the first time with chapters and fragments that miraculously survived in the archive.