Fazil' Iskander's Sandro iz Chegema, an eclectic compilation, reflects the diversity of its literary age. It compiles on the thematic, stylistic, and narrative levels, combining a surface conventionality with a potentially innovative disregard for the niceties of form. / The first chapter retraces the piecemeal emergence of Sandro and the often contradictory critical response. The second focuses on the period's proclaimed goal of expanding into larger and ultimately epic forms. A compilative impulse based on recurrence and a quasi-oral tone is shown in the third to run throughout Iskander's work. / Chapters Four and Five compare parallel cycles with Sandro to demonstrate the compartmentalization effect of aphorism and autobiographical reminiscence. The final chapter discusses the I-narrator's compilative position within and without the narrated world. / This structural isomorphism, together with a vertical dynamics replacing the more familiar linear development, is considered to lend to Iskander's compilative method its own, open-ended unity.

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