The novel “Running Rings” is a witty, brilliant, funny, and unpredictable story written in the 1960s by one of the best feuilletonists of the USSR’s leading humorous magazine “Crocodile,” Yuri Alyokseev. Players, newspaper employees, people living around the newspaper world, a sculptor suffering from megalomania, all kinds of rogues, bohemia and the personalities sticking to it with an unclear past and an even more vague future… Everything is like today: funny, absurd, ridiculous. But very true and wildly talented.