Vsevolod Benigsen made a bright debut with the novel “GenAcid” (Znamya magazine award, longlist for the BIG BOOK award). The following books - "Rayad" and "WITCH" confirmed the first impression: this young author masterfully comes up with stories in which social fiction closely coexists with "psychology", and for him there are no taboos, especially when it comes to Soviet mythologies. His predecessors are called Voinovich, Iskander, Yuz Aleshkovsky. The short prose of Vsevolod Benigsen is mixed with the grotesque. Black humor a la Mamleev coexists with simply funny stories.