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Wiktor Olegowitsch Pelewin

    November 22, 1962

    Victor Pelevin is a contemporary Russian prose writer. His works are known for their postmodern blend of satire, science fiction, and philosophical contemplation. Pelevin explores themes of identity, reality, and the influence of mass media in post-Soviet Russia. His unique style often combines contemporary observations with references to Russian culture and Buddhism.

    Wiktor Olegowitsch Pelewin
    The Life of Insects
    Empire V
    The Blue Lantern
    The Yellow Arrow
    4 by Pelevin
    The clay machine-gun
    • The clay machine-gun

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.3(2633)Add rating

      An intellectually dazzling and hilarious fantasy about identity and Russian history, and a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosphy, The Clay Machine-Gun confirms Victor Pelevin as 'one of the brightest stars in the Russian literary firmament' Observer. 'Victor Pelevin is the future of the Russian novel. His satires take the temperature of post-Soviet Russia, in all its amoral, dystopian chaos.With his fusion of oriental and sci-fi, there's no mistaking Pelevin's place in the absurdist pantheon alongside Gogol and Bulgakov.' Independent.

      The clay machine-gun
    • 4 by Pelevin

      • 101 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.1(199)Add rating

      Featuring four stories by Victor Pelevin, this collection delves into the surreal and absurd aspects of post-Glasnost Russia. With a unique voice reminiscent of Gogol, Pelevin explores themes of chaos and alternate realities. In "Hermit and Six Toes," a toilet attendant uncovers a portal to another world, while a man in a city at night grapples with the uncertainty of his companion's existence. This volume serves as an engaging introduction to Pelevin's bleakly comic genius and his distinctive narrative style.

      4 by Pelevin
    • The Yellow Arrow

      • 100 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
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      THE YELLOW ARROW is a Russian train speeding toward a ruined bridge, a train without an end or a beginningand it makes no stops. Andrei, the mystic passenger, less and less lulled by the never-ending sound of the wheels, has begun to look for a way to get off. But life in the carriages goes on as always. This important young Russian author's first American translation garnered rave reviews.

      The Yellow Arrow
    • The Blue Lantern

      • 178 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.9(42)Add rating

      The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. In The Blue Lantern he brings together sex-change prostitutes, melancholy animals and a cabinful of young boys obsessed by death. Sidestepping the world we take for granted, these stories show in miniature the fantastical talent for which the Observer acclaimed Pelevin's work as 'the real thing, fiction of world class'.

      The Blue Lantern
    • EMPIRE V is a post-modern, timely, whimsical and satirical story about a young man who involuntary joins a revolutionary cult . . .

      Empire V
    • The Life of Insects

      • 196 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.9(2980)Add rating

      Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics.

      The Life of Insects
    • Babylon

      • 250 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.8(1233)Add rating

      As a poet, Tartarsky is a failure. As a copywriter for one of Moscow's biggest advertising firms he makes $2,000 in ten minutes - and that's before the cocaine kicks in. But as Tartarsky speeds through a surreal world of PR mercenaries, back-door deals and Zen Buddhism, he begins to suspect the disturbing truth behind it all - as suggested to him by the disembodied voice of Che Guevara. Babylon confirms Victor Pelevin's reputation as the funniest and sharpest observer of the chaos and absurdity of post-Soviet Russian life.

      Babylon
    • The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.5(155)Add rating

      A darkly comic work by the author of Buddha's Little Finger finds fifteen-year-old Moscow prostitute A. Huli hiding her identity as a two-thousand-year-old were-fox who seduces men to absorb their life force, a practice that catches the attention of a high-ranking intelligence officer and fellow werewolf. 10,000 first printing.

      The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
    • S.N.U.F.F. is a hard-hitting and timely satirical story about war, revolution and their relationship with the media.

      S.N.U.F.F.