The remarkable Russian prose writer, the author of the most famous books that have gone through many reprints, “Shoot!”, “72 Meters” and many others, invites the reader to immerse himself in the expressive world of the grotesque. The writer, armed only with the strength and sharpness of his gift, “travels” through bureaucratic lands spread across the entire landscape of modern times. He sees and hears, smells and touches this “new” physicality with the same humor and stylistic fearlessness with which his outstanding predecessors - Gogol, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Zoshchenko and Bulgakov - looked at Russian life.