Russian satirical writer and mathematician. His first book Ziyayushchie vysoty/
Yawning Heights (1976), a surreal, chaotic narrative, represents a formal negation
of the socialist realist novel and the promised ‘great Future’ of Soviet ideology. He
complicated the quasi-scientific stance of his writing by deliberate disorganization,
even in his treatise Kommunizm kak realnost/The Reality of Communism (1981).