"Short prose is a blow of knife, abandoning long narcotic influence. The real story is the hardly filtered quintessence of the novel injected in one reception. A story is not written is he at first проживается, and then minted", - Mikhail Веллер said about новеллистике in an interview to the weekly "Arguments and time".The most best and most characteristic stories of Веллера are plugged in a book. Them разноплановость, unlikeness on each other is unchanging authorial principle. Collected together, stories create unique on a brightness and originality новеллистический corps.Table of contents of collection :Forfeit.All will get settledTransportingDebtsPurseTribunalButtonDecauvilleLieutenant colonel КовалевI want to ParisРеал. Horse on one drivingAnd those the figInexpensive pleasuresGoverned omnipotencesChildren of winnersModern.Last danceDebiteuseBermudiansFreedom will not be presentedReturnMomentAbout anythingQuotationsКоротк.OrangesConcomitant termsAmendments to the tasksSpiderThoughtsEchoDifferent fatesLegionnaireWhistlesHumour.A survey goesПлановое happinessCentaurI want to be a yardman