Squaring the Circle is Russian prose by a new generation of authors from various parts of Russia who never lived in the USSR and who, unlike older writers, are not fighting the Soviet past. Young people have no algorithms for building their lives and careers. There are no guarantees, but anything is possible.
from "High Pressure": 'Look, everything you don't like is the reason you're trying to enter the fraternal bosom of the European Union.' 'Brothers don't have bosoms,' Andryukha commented. Everyone gave that serious thought but let it drop.
They explained to Igor that if honest citizens were allowed to sell gas freely, that would be communism, and there's not one single... well you know... in short, no one would work and everyone would sell gas.