Lyudi nashego carya

Pisatel' rabotaet s chastnym sluchaem: zhizn' daet povod - i rozhdaetsya syuzhet. No odnazhdy avtor obnaruzhivaet, chto etot syuzhet "razbit na tysyachi kuskov i u kazhdogo kuska svoy glaz, nos, uho - v kazhdom oskolke svoya kartinka". V knige "Lyudi nashego carya" takie raznye i strannye geroi - pisatel'skie dochki, obremenennye svoim proishozhdeniem, krasavicy, utomlennye sobstvennoy krasotoy, mechtatel'nyy slesar', uvlekshiysya ucheniem Shtaynera, i chudak Lenya, vospityvayuschiy detey lyubimoy zhenschiny…