About the book: 2020 / Vladimir Sorokin began recording Russian proverbs and sayings back in the mid-eighties, following the example of his great predecessors. But the writer drew them not from folklore expeditions, but from the depths of the Russian world he himself created. That world within which the fantastic and at the same time recognizable reality of “Blizzard” and “Telluria” is possible. While maintaining the intonation and structure of folk speech, the author populates it with fairy-tale characters and fills it with new concepts and words. This Russian looking-glass lives by its own laws and rules, the very absurdity of which is subject to strict logic. Contains obscene language.