Constellation Kozluture

About the reasons that Fazil Iskander (1929-2016) to write the story "Constellation of the Kozluture", he himself told notes called "On the Technology of Stupidity": "I tried to stop the corporative campaign with his article. The article, however, was not printed, but the writer must set himself crazy tasks. They did not print the article, but the "New World" printed the story (1966), which immediately made the young prose writer famous. The whole country laughed over administrative stupidity, perfectly understanding that the writer’s “crazy” plan of the writer is much wider than "goatorization" or "cornation" and that, as the author notes, “many other constellations in the sky”. Half a century has passed, the brilliance of a wise and sarcastic Iskander ridicule did not fade at all. The story, which occurred on a scale of a small but pretty autonomous republic ", organically fits into the history of great Russian satirical literature - after all, the size of the territory is important, but the scale of talent