VZ by Dmitry Bykov is not a biography of Vladimir Zelensky. And it is not even a book about the war. VZ — especially its third part, “Mystery” — is about, perhaps, the final battle between archaism and progress. About the battle unfolding before our eyes and with our — whether we want it or not — direct participation. VZ is the main character of this book. Unexpectedly for himself, he directed the 21st century along the right path. He turned out to be an instrument of that very Absolute, in the existence of which the world almost no longer believed, corrupted by the indistinguishability of good and evil and the myth of universal corruption. The hero who defended our humanity. However, the divine plan of what is happening is still not entirely clear...