The fish with two shadows is a modern Georgian Philosophical novel, which belongs to magic-realism genre. The plot of the novel is developing on the one hand in the invented mystical country – seaside Uman and the other hand historical West and East of early middle ages at the crossing of Christianity and Islam. You can see invented personages as well as world folklore-mythical characters, religious and mythological universal archetypes. The main cosmogonic – eschatological conception of the novel is realized by intricate and intriguing magical-realistic stories, the background of which alongside with constant apocalyptic hysteria of the Middle Ages. Wisdom, predictions and the mystical chronicle of Barrel’s family preserved in an ancient manuscript 'The Kings Dreams' by means of metaphors tell us the history of cosmos from the creation of the Universe up to its end. 1088 – the end of the Universe is inevitable, but will mankind’s life go on after the end? In the Barrel’s palace a witch woman – Dzerasa appears and she makes alive the myth of totem twins; 'a new human' is born and then the future of the Barrel’s family and the Universe predestined to be ruined changes.