Ouspensky Pyotr. Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

London. Faber and Faber. 1971 (1947). - 204 c.
Title of the Russian original: "The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin." 1915.The only science fiction novel by the mystic philosopher Pyotr Demyanovich Uspensky (1878-1947).
If you had a chance to live your life again, what would you do with it? P.D. Ouspensky’s only novel, set in Moscow, on a country estate, and in Paris, tells what happened to Ivan Osokin when he was sent back twelve years to his stormy schooldays, early manhood, and early loves.
The story realizes ‘eternal recurrence’, a theory of time developed in Ouspensky’s well-known book "A New Model o f the Universe".
‘A brilliant fantasy, treated in most respects realistically and written to illustrate the theme that we do not live life but that life lives us.
. . the feeling for the suspense of the present moment, which hangs like a drop of rain upon the window, containing a whole world in itself.’