Чапаев и Пустота

The hero of the novel – the poet-decadent, red Commissioner and a patient in a mental hospital Peter Emptiness. Every time he fell asleep in his division commander Vasily Chapaev, he wakes up in the hospital for the insane. Peter is convinced that the hospital is a figment of his imagination. However, Chapaev says that both of these world – unreal, and Peter just need to finally Wake up. But how to do it, if instead of reality, shining void?