About the book: 2019 / This book includes three stories: the parable "Diva", the modern life "The Star and Death of Sanka Smykov" and the drama "The Time of Animals". Moreover, the name of the latter combines these three things under one cover is not accidental. Along with the relative stabilization of Russian life in the “zero” years, the so-called “stagnation”, well known to the generation of the so-called “seventies,” slowly but surely began to return to our reality. This “return” is acquiring its own typological characteristics these days, the main one of which is that people and animals begin, so to speak, to change places. Contains obscene language.