Золотой ключ, или Похождения Буратины

The novel by Mikhail Kharitonov has the subtitle "a non-human comedy" - and indeed, the concept of "The Golden Key" is comparable in scale to Balzac's novel cycle and to Dante's great "Comedy" (which, as we know, was only called divine by descendants after some time). Before you is a captivating book, light, homerecally funny, Rabelaisian in its excess, timely, philosophical, provocative, stepping over all taboos and violating all conceivable boundaries - in a word, exactly the way truly great books are.