Priklyucheniya Alisy v Strane Chudes

“L. Carroll’s book, in my opinion, is not a fairy tale. A fairy tale is devoid of paradox, a fairy tale has a solid ethical basis, its plot is vagrant. In any case, “Alice” is not a folk tale, but rather a folk versification. This is the first. The second is a kind of novel from the life of paradoxes. The third is, perhaps, a parody of a traditional mathematician, such as Carroll, on the provisions of the new non-Euclidean mathematics, to which, as is known, Professor Dodgson treated very ironically (but, as mathematicians told me, the parody involuntarily grew into its opposite, that is, into an affirmation of the provisions of the addressee of the irony). I did not feel this aspect of the book well, because I am not on good terms with higher mathematics, and simply took his word for it.

Fourth, the book is written in the key of a visionary sense of being, like a dream.

All this had to be taken into account and drawn, keeping in mind all four positions”.