Summary
Mark Twain: Number 44, Mysterious Stranger
During the last ten years of his life, Mark Twain worked in parallel on three mysterious manuscripts with the action set in the past and in three different environments, but with the same diabolically charming stranger - young Satan - after the appearance of which unusual supernaturals are ordered among people events…
The first and most famous version of the manuscript, titled Tajanstveni stranac, was printed in 1916 after the author's death, and more than half a century later, in 1969, a longer and more provocative version was published under the title Number 44, tajanstveni stranac. It turned out to be the latter and the best, with the fewest editorial interventions, with a particularly intriguing last chapter in which the author through Unholy, who presents himself as "Number 44, new series 864,962", reckons with both people and God, so at one point he says that, in fact, nothing exists "not even God, neither the universe, nor the human race, nor life on Earth, nor heaven, nor hell. It's all a dream, a grotesque, crazy dream. There is nothing but You. And you're just a Thought..."
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