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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 Yellow Arrow
    4 by Pelevin
    The clay machine-gun
    The Sacred Book of Werewolf
    The Blue Lantern and Other Stories
    Russia
    • Russia

      The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII

      Russia
    • Comic stories by a Russian writer. In Hermit and Six Toes, chickens debate the nature of the world, which is ruled by bloodthirsty gods in white coats, while in Mid-Game, young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes

      The Blue Lantern and Other Stories
    • The Sacred Book of Werewolf

      • 333 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The world's first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance?published to coincide with Halloween One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin's comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and "Time" has described him as a ?psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.? In "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf," a smash success in Russia and Pelevin's first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who's the key figure in Russia's Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russia's most gifted literary malcontent.

      The Sacred Book of Werewolf
    • 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
      4.1(2568)Add rating

      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