‘Bullying’ by Sasha Filipenko is a brilliant novel. It seems to me that a cult writer of the first twenty years of the 21st century has appeared in Russia, replacing Viktor Pelevin. Virtual trips into the subconscious and verbal magic are starting to get boring, Victor Pelevin himself has become dependent on them, like a drug addict. And Sasha Filipenko in many ways continues the literary tradition of Vasily Aksenov - new jargon, style, irony, realities, analysis of social trends.