Heroes Arcadia Averchenko - inhabitants of the big city, with their absurdity, stupidity, mediocrity, arrogance and petty-bourgeois values. prose writer was immensely popular among his contemporaries called him "Knight Smile" some collections of his short stories were reprinted more than twenty times. Averchenko had a remarkable ability to reinvent witty stories, create a lot of funny positions, dialogues and improvisations. According to N. A. Teffi ". He purebred Russian humorist, without tears and laughter through tears his place in Russian literature of its own, I would say - the only Russian humorist." The book includes stories relating to different periods of the writer, the cycle "On the small - to large", the story "The expedition to Western Europe satirikontsev ...", as well as the comic novel "Joke patron", written by him in 1923, two years before his death in exile in Prague.
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