Among our humorists and satirists - Shishkov, Zoshchenko, Panteleimon Romanov, Mikhail Bulgakov - M. Ya. Kozyrev took his special place. As a satirist, he does not know the “colors of innocent humor”; he is closer to the caustic satirist and sharp science fiction writer Bulgakov than to the philistine good-natured humorist Zoshchenko. Hints, reticence, and interruptions in mid-sentence have become the writer’s favorite technique. It is no exaggeration to say that all his “real stories,” fairy tales and novellas always depict life from a fantasy angle. https://ruslit.traumlibrary.net