The love of a professor towards his protected student and the confused feelings that the young student has towards the professor and his wife, unspoken thoughts, remorse, guilt, shame - all presented with the grandeur that classical literature can bestow... A work that caused a sensation in its time and continues to provoke...

"Forty years have passed since then: and yet even today, during a speech, when I am carried away by the momentum of speech, I suddenly feel awkward that it is not me speaking, but someone else who borrowed my mouth to express themselves. Then I recognize the voice of a beloved dead person, a dead person who no longer breathed except on my lips: their enthusiasm always gives me wings, they dictate my words. And I know, their works are the ones that created me."