Leo Strauss: the art of writing and the art of reading

The paper is a foreword for a Russian edition of one of the most important political and philosophical texts by political philosopher Leo Strauss, "Persecution and the Art of Writing". The author describes Strauss's hermeneutics and rules of interpretation. Author also regards Slavoj Zizek's original position on Strauss's view of exoterism and esoterism. The author tries to answer the question whether Leo Strauss himself could write "between the lines" and whether he had reasons for it, making a conclusion that this philosopher not only could but did write esoterically. But what was written by Strauss "between the lines" will be a subject of another investigation.