His works, full of realism, irony, tragedy and grotesquery, represent the complex, colorful and dramatic life of the contemporary Russians.

Milton's treading an extraordinarily fine line between the tremendous beauty of this image, on the one hand, and its potential impiety or just grotesquery on the other.

I don't have time here to discuss this section right now, but you've already had some encounter with the incredibly impressive level of ingenuity and grotesquery in this remarkable passage.