A School for Fools

For the annotation, the publisher, Carl Proffer, used compliments on the work from Vladimir Nabokov's letter.

[2] The novel doesn't have a linear plot, but rather presents events as recalled by the main character.

Following graduation, So-and-So goes on to work in a variety of jobs, from "sharpening pencils" to being a conductor.

in 1996, Wolfgang Kasack described the book as "the most surrealistic work of modern Russian literature.

[4] In the opinion of Mark Lipovetsky A School for Fools directly follows Nabokov's literary tradition and paves the way to the most important and interesting phenomena of the 21st century Russian prose, including works by Alexander Goldstein, Denis Osokin, Nikolay Kononov, and others.