About the book: 1982 / The collection includes humorous stories, many of which are familiar to readers from periodicals. In the best of them, the author’s creative style was most fully manifested: in his palette includes irony, grotesque, and sarcasm - techniques that he masters equally well. With their help, the author ridicules modern philistinism, hiding behind demagogic slogans, debunks his heroes in their spiritual inconsistency, the vanity of their life aspirations, notices and castigates the shortcomings and vices that still exist in life.