“Zorin is the last encyclopedist to wander into our utilitarian times. If Borges is a postscript to world literature, then Zorin is a postscript to it.” (Alexander Shapiro, critic, Israel) “Ivan Zorin gives in the story a fusion of several realities at once. On an equal footing with the clearest and most direct description of “natural life”, with the most subtle, jewelery technique, ardent, artistically passionate, imperious reality is woven in, where everything in Russian is excessive - beyond measure. The reality of his stories always falls outside the “frame” of everything ordinary, immersed in a special “crystalline” solution of bold artistic fiction. This is “reality” that has been brought to catharsis or has already experienced it.” (Kapitolina Koksheneva, critic, Russia)… It seems that this book has many authors. Under one cover there are collected short stories in the classical style and literary exercises (rich and multi-layered texts, full of images, textures, lines and allusions), which may become classics in the 21st century.