The book is concerned with the narrative strategy that during the 1st and 2 nd decade of the 20 th century B. Eikhenbaum called skaz.
The book is diveded into two parts, the theoretical explanation of the problem and the interpretaion of specific artistis texts written by the authers as Avvakum, Leskov, Zoschenko, Aleshkovsky, Yerofejev, Sokolov, Limonov, Petrushevskaya, Hrabal and Vaculík.