The story of one city. Saltykov-Shchedrin M.E.

The annals of the city of Glupova, in which one mayor has a device with recorded scripts instead of a brain, and the other has a head stuffed with truffles. At the same time, the third writes the Charter “On the Nesti of the City Committee by Laws”, and the fourth dreams of making the same houses for the same people. Fiction, can you say? Not quite, rather a grotesque. Such a technique, which, like a magnifying glass with a built -in flashlight, helps the author to highlight - and to see the reader - the main thing. Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, who knew life in the capital and provinces from all sides, did not fantasize, but wrote his characters from nature. Not only the mayors, but also the inhabitants of the city of Gluapov.

By the way, what are the latter, while the former are alive? Learn in the book.