Flowers for Algernon

Forty years ago it was considered science fiction. Forty years ago it was read as science fiction. Exploring and expanding the boundaries of the genre, eagerly absorbing all sorts of the latest trends, embodying a universal human face, boldly ignoring the mark of Cain "genre ghetto". Now it is perceived as one of the most humane works of modern times, as a novel of piercing psychological power, as a fine-grained development of the themes of love and responsibility. It is no coincidence that the memoirs published in the 1990s were titled "Algernon, Charlie and Me" by Keyes.