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The publication contains works from the second collection of prose by M. Khvylovy (1893-1933) "Autumn". Their characters overcome the difficult path of choice, face the line that should never be crossed.

In the soul of the protagonist of the short story "I (Romance)", there is a struggle between good and evil, humanism and fanaticism. He is a "Chekist, but also a man", a "minty son", who, after the most shameful crime against his dearest person - his mother, destroys the remnants of humanity in himself and morally dies.

The story "The Sanatorium Zone" depicts a post-revolutionary society. The recent builders of a new life become "superfluous people", they feel their own incompatibility with the times, the gap between ideals and reality, and are treated for a variety of mental illnesses. The evil done by the protagonist of the story for the sake of a high idea destroyed his own vitality and eventually led to his suicide. The communist ideals of the heroes of this collection have been destroyed, the fates of yesterday's romantics of the revolution have been ruined.