The Crankshafts

Yuri Mamleev is the founder and recognized master of the genre of metaphysical realism. This is literature of the end of the world, exploring the black holes and abysses that open in human souls.

"The Crankshafts" is a grotesque underground novel written in the sixties of the last century and for a long time had no chance of being published in the USSR. It is a surreal, noir, and metaphysical depiction of spiritual and physical entropy. The visible world is an illusion and a realm of death, in which spiritual quests turn into obsession. "The Crankshafts," by definition of Yuri Mamleev himself, is a riddle novel.