The first is that all the plots of world literature in its past, present and future can be reduced to only four: “The Siege of the City”, “The Return Home”, “The Search” and “The Suicide of God”. The first plot is present in Homer’s Iliad, the second in his Odyssey. God sacrifices himself in the Gospel, and the search (for something external or for oneself) is present in any adventure or psychological novel. And you can argue with this discovery of the blind librarian as much as you like, but ultimately he is right. And then, from the point of view of the plot, there is no fundamental difference between Homer’s Odyssey and, for example, Rasputin’s Live and Remember, because in both cases the hero returns home. There is no plot difference between the epic about how the Greeks besieged Troy and any novel where the hero wins the love of the lady of his heart – in both cases there is a brutal siege of the fortress.