Oleg Krishtal is a world-famous neuroscientist, one of the very few our contemporaries included in the list of top scientists and scholars of modern times.

In addition to his internationally known research papers, he wrote two fiction books, both published in the leading Russian literary magazines:

1) The novel "Homunculus"; (awarded with the gold medal “For the best novel of the year 1995”). In 2000, the novel was published in France under the title "Moi et Mon Double".

2) The novel-essay "To the Singing of Birds", which is a breath-taking combination of postmodern irony, confessional insights, humor, anguish, joyous and sad recollections, and love of life the sense of which yet to be found.