The famous novel by the master of "grotesque realism" Yuri Polyakov "The Plaster Trumpeter" has no analogues in modern Russian literature either in entertainment, genre originality, or coverage of topics. This "ironic epic," as critics have called it, combines the features of a detective story, a love story, a psychological novel, and social satire, and resembles the Decameron with an abundance of brilliant insert novels. As always, the author captivates the reader with a masterly twisted plot, captivates with the bright and complex characters of the characters, delights with a refined ironic style, amazes with unexpected metaphors and aphorisms, and excites with refined eroticism. The second book includes the third and fourth parts of the novel – "The Man-lover and the Man-Lover" and "The Feast of the Vanquished", as well as an epilogue that ties all the numerous threads of the narrative into a knot and is called by the author "The End of the Film". And the volume ends with a selection of "Thus spoke Saint-John the Persian." These are the author's aphorisms, which are beloved by readers, extracted from the text of the ironic epic.