Zhivye dushi ili pokhozhdeniya Lebed'ko

Eta kniga nachinaetsya kak avantyurnyy roman, gde geroy, v dukhe gogolevskikh "pokhozhdeniy Chichikova" pytaetsya obzavestis' nekim dushevnym "kapital'tsem" dlya togo, chtoby proslyt' Velikim Posvyashchennym, obresti slavu i dobit'sya vzaimnosti vnuchki znamenitogo rossiyskogo pisatelya. Dlya etoy tseli geroy puteshestvuet, poseshchaya "sil'nykh mira sego", v nadezhde poluchit' u nikh priznanie i rekomendatsii v sootvetstvuyushchie "krugi". S kazhdym vizavi u geroya proiskhodyat nasyshchennye besedy, v khode kotorykh on postepenno preobrazhaetsya, poznavaya to, o chem on pervonachal'no ne podozreval, kak i bol'shinstvo lyudey kazhdyy vizavi otkryvaet geroyu skrytye mekhanizmy, kotorymi vlast' priderzhashchie upravlyayut soznaniem lyudey. Emu otkryvaetsya Sistema, vo vsey ee tsinichnoy, besposhchadnoy i kovarnoy mnogomernosti. Postepenno menyayutsya tseli i tsennosti geroya. On popadaet v krug ochen' vysokopostavlennykh i mediynykh personazhey, kotorye predstayut emu s tekh storon, kotorye skryty ot shirokoy obshchestvennosti. Osvobozhdenie ot mnogikh okov Sistemy stanovitsya vozmozhnym, no v odinochku eto prakticheski beznadezhno Sud'ba brosaet glavnomu geroyu vyzov. Kak on otvetit na nego?