As Russian society passes through a stage of wrenching transformation, the vision of its writers has veered toward the absurd. Even those who work in a realist style enrich their stories with fantasy and a sense of the impossible. This unique collection presents the latest work of Genrikh Sapgir, Victor Pelevin, Valery Ronshin, Alexander Selin, Grigory Kruzhkov, alexnader Kabakov, Nikolai Klimontovich, and Ludmilla Shtern.