In the novel "Fortress" by the famous Russian writer and philosopher, Vladimir Kantor, life is portrayed in its tragic reality. Therefore, any act of a person here is verified by the highest responsibility - the responsibility of fate. "A short piece of the genus - two or three links," as Blok wrote, allows you to understand the movement of time. "If there were living literary criticism in our country and public opinion was expressed naturally and freely, this novel would cause a storm: both blasphemy and praise.... With cruel ruthlessness, permissible only to art, the author of the novel peers at a person - in his intimate, base and high actions and experiences. But in general, the main topics are simple and creepy: love, violence, death," - this is how the Sabashnikov publishing house announced this troman in 1992. Thus, "Fortress" (as the critic wrote) became in the public's perception primarily a "document of the era," and its artistic beginning involuntarily faded into the background. Offering the reader a new edition of "Fortress" in the author's, full version, our publishing house is confident that the novel will be read by people who have retained a taste for high tragic and philosophical prose.