"In the Mirror of Oblivion" is one of the last books by the famous Chukchi writer Yuri Sergeyevich Rytkheu (1930-2008). Its main character, Georgy Sergeevich Neznamov, approached an invisible life line when it is necessary to stop and look back, to realize that "life has completely changed," that you need to understand this "new situation" and determine your position in it.