The article focuses on the ways through which Russian contemporary writer Sasha Sokolov conveys a general idea of indeterminacy in his works. If defamiliarization, in Shklovsky's terms, is the basis of poetic language, in Sokolov's text this technique lies at the basis of both form and content. In this sense, Sokolov overcomes the "dictatorship" of the plot (the "What") in literature, electing the "How" as aesthetic principle able to structure and organize literary texts.