It is "now talked about the revival of genre of story, about the increase of interest in him after a long interruption. A bloom of the Russian soviet story is on the twentieth (Бабель, Ivanov, Зощенко) and then sixtieth (Казаков, Шукшин of and other) years. Оперативнее of other prosaic genres a story reacts on changes in public life: firstly, he simply is quicker written, secondly, in him more difficult to do careless work, give out desired after actual, substituting an intent look on a thing длиннотами of descriptions and list of events. The weakness of novel can mask the abundance of material and multiword the жизнеподобием| weakness of short story of нага is obvious. Characteristically, that in the period of cult of personality, when literature was aimed at varnishing of reality and propaganda of the set options, bonuses awarded with exceptionally novels".