This book is about poets and prose writers David Samoilov, Vladimir Sokolov, Inna Lisnyanskaya, Semyon Lipkin, Yuri Davydov, Vasily Aksenov, Fazil Iskander, Oleg Chukhontsev, these, as they say, classics of modern literature, and about bright poets of something else generations - Evgenia Blazheevsky, Oleg Khlebnikov. This is from the category of "portraits," but considerable attention is paid to the phenomena of "postsocrealism" (the author's term), false avant-garde (his own judgments), hence the defiant title of the book. Here, an attempt is made by "portraiture" of those whom Rassadin prefers, and polemics with what he does not accept, to understand and present not only the literary, but also the historical process. The book, as the author emphasizes, is designed "for everyone, for everyone, at least from those who are going to read it."