Hero of novel "Yours sincerely Шурик" is a bright personage in the gallery of portraits of Ljudmila Улицкой. Here, according to an author, "local problem of mutual relations of son and mother, submission of man to the call of duty and losses related to it. Tints of love - egoistical maternal, unselfish son, the family incest at spiritual level, and also feelings and experiencing of various women - lonely, unhappy, frivolous, often aggressive to the hero that is full goodwill and the best intentions, but nobody can do happy. And even on the contrary".