Those who laugh, laugh. Collective novel

In the 60s of the last century, a group of Soviet authors wrote a collective novel. There were nine authors, they wrote staring. The order of writing chapters was chosen by lot. Valentin Kataev got the first issue, the second chapter was written by Anatoly Glavilin, Yuri Kazakov, Lev Slavin, Vasily Aksyonov, Ilya Zverev and Vladimir Voinovich, farther and further tightening the plot, entered. Fazil Iskander and George Vladimov had to spin it.

The author is a lot of hard, because the novel offered to your attention was composed in the company of nine writers, among whom there are recognized classics, and the classics are controversial, and the classics are unrecognized.
In any case, all of them are famous and good writers.
In addition to its plot properties, the novel was also a certain book, which contains samples of writer"s handwriting, not sorrowful.
Ilya Zverev