"Something Funny" (1953), the saddest, bitterest work of U. Saroyana - about the failed fates, the fault of which became the characters themselves, about the oppressed pride, about the lost happiness, the lost life This is a realistic narrative with an amazing focus on the smallest movements of the human soul. full of allegories and deep subtext, revealing Saroyan's "personal" theme - the topic of family loss and longing for it , the warmth and harmony of her little world , Preserving those traditional moral values , who in the eyes of the author more and more clearly disappeared from the disharmonious and cold big world of post-war America. For the first time, the translation of the novel into Russian was published in the journal Literary Armenia, 1963, No. 58 ..