Clones of great writers writhe in a painful script process, the Bolshoi Theater is filled to the ceiling with sewage, Stalin and Khrushchev are lovers, the history of the twentieth century is turned inside out. In the most provocative novel by Vladimir Sorokin, which secured him the title of a classic of postmodernism, all idols are overthrown. they become participants in an unbridled carnival, where high and low, fantasy and reality, past and future are mixed. However, one shrine remains unviolated: destroying the usual ideas about the norm and turning everything upside down, Sorokin here too proclaims the sacred status of literature. The novel's protagonist is a literary myth; it changes, but its fundamental role in culture remains unchanged.