And yet another “book by the wonderful Russian prose writer Alexander Pokrovsky, ‘Cubrick,’ consists of stories that should be told exactly there—freeing speech, freeing the Russian language (in the literal and figurative sense) from the laws of hierarchy and strictness. These laws obey outwardly, but contradict themselves within—because they want to live, not merely survive.
Juicy language, risky anecdotal situations, the comedy and despair of the characters—make these “frivolous” stories true literary works.”