Temnikov’s writing palette has a very wide spectrum - through the skillful script of his prose one can see either the fox face from Pu Sunling’s short stories, or the sly smile of Borges, or the languid eroticism of Bunin’s “Dark Alleys”. Perhaps Temnikov’s brilliant stories are a prototype of the future Eurasian writing, throwing off the shackles of hateful genres and laughing at their boring geometry, because its harmony is verified by the course of the heavenly bodies, and not by a tailor’s pattern.