From the first page of "The Oak and the Calf".....

"Underground is where you expect to find revolutionaries. But not writers.

For the writer intent on truth, life never was, never is(and never will be!), easy: his like have suffered every imaginable harassment---defamation, duels, a shattered family life, financial ruin, or lifelong unrelieved poverty, the madhouse, jail. While those who wanted for nothing, like Lev Tolstoy, have suffered worst torment in the claws of conscience."