Valentin Kuklev’s book “People of the Clefts” – or “Deep People” – represents an example of a rare genre of social anthropology. For deep people, the search for concepts is important; they are designed to satisfy the intellectual life of the new. They deal with the essence of existence, the discovery of reality, the struggle of spirit and soul. For them, the immortality of the spirit wages a desperate struggle for self-remembering against oblivion, against the world of agnotology – the world of ignorance.

“People of the Clefts” is not a biography of characters, not a factual biography; rather, it is an internal biography, the development of their ideas, concepts, views and how all this is subsequently reflected in fate, in texts, in our world. They, like living books, narrate the feeling of their time, capturing the overlapping symbols of the meaning of day and eternity.