... Marat Gizatulin is a short story master. The lyrical hero of his funny texts is a former Soviet proletarian - the unconditional heir to the heroes and characters of prose Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov.... M. Gizatulin's stories do not at all impress written prose - they are surprisingly lively, floundering, naughty, like children. When I read them, I always remembered the oral stories of Irakli Andronikov and the monologues of Zhvanetsky...