Vladimir Sorokin is one of the most prominent representatives of Russian postmodernism, whose texts often provoke a strong reader and critical reaction due to the abundance of lunchtime vocabulary, scenes of sex and violence. In his monograph, German Russian specialist Dirk Uffelmann for the first time analyzes all the main works of Vladimir Sorokin - from “The Queue” and “Novel” to “Blizzard” and “Telluria”. The author shows how, drawing plots from Russian classics of the 19th century and socialist realism, turning to popular culture and nationalist rhetoric, Sorokin remains faithful to the goal of splitting other people's discourses. The author takes a comprehensive approach to the evolution of Sorokin’s writing - once a “restrained young man” who amazed the circle of conceptualists with “an unheard of outrage against Soviet aesthetic norms”, later a scandalous author whose books were thrown into a foam toilet by pro-Kremlin youth, and now a living classic who is constantly called visionary. Dirk Uffelmann is a professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Giessen. Justus Liebig.