Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
4 by Pelevin
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Omon Ra
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.
Homo Zapiens
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101175265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101175265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.
Buddha's Little Finger
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101655844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101655844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670019885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A novel about a fifteen-year-old prostitute who is actually a 2,000-year old werefox who seduces men with her tail and drains them of their sexual power. She falls in love with a KGB officer who is actually a werewolf.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670019885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A novel about a fifteen-year-old prostitute who is actually a 2,000-year old werefox who seduces men with her tail and drains them of their sexual power. She falls in love with a KGB officer who is actually a werewolf.
Pelevin and Unfreedom
Author: Sofya Khagi
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810143046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Sofya Khagi’s Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin’s sustained Dostoevskian reflections on the philosophical question of freedom and his complex oeuvre and worldview, shaped by the idea that contemporary social conditions pervert that very notion. Khagi shows that Pelevin uses provocative and imaginative prose to model different systems of unfreedom, vividly illustrating how the present world deploys hyper-commodification and technological manipulation to promote human degradation and social deadlock. Rather than rehearse Cold War–era platitudes about totalitarianism, Pelevin holds up a mirror to show how social control (now covert, yet far more efficient) masquerades as freedom and how eagerly we accept, even welcome, control under the techno-consumer system. He reflects on how commonplace discursive markers of freedom (like the free market) are in fact misleading and disempowering. Under this comfortably self-occluding bondage, the subject loses all power of self-determination, free will, and ethical judgment. In his work, Pelevin highlights the unprecedented subversion of human society by the techno-consumer machine. Yet, Khagi argues, however circumscribed and ironically qualified, he holds onto the emancipatory potential of ethics and even an emancipatory humanism.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810143046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Sofya Khagi’s Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin’s sustained Dostoevskian reflections on the philosophical question of freedom and his complex oeuvre and worldview, shaped by the idea that contemporary social conditions pervert that very notion. Khagi shows that Pelevin uses provocative and imaginative prose to model different systems of unfreedom, vividly illustrating how the present world deploys hyper-commodification and technological manipulation to promote human degradation and social deadlock. Rather than rehearse Cold War–era platitudes about totalitarianism, Pelevin holds up a mirror to show how social control (now covert, yet far more efficient) masquerades as freedom and how eagerly we accept, even welcome, control under the techno-consumer system. He reflects on how commonplace discursive markers of freedom (like the free market) are in fact misleading and disempowering. Under this comfortably self-occluding bondage, the subject loses all power of self-determination, free will, and ethical judgment. In his work, Pelevin highlights the unprecedented subversion of human society by the techno-consumer machine. Yet, Khagi argues, however circumscribed and ironically qualified, he holds onto the emancipatory potential of ethics and even an emancipatory humanism.
The Hall of Singing Caryatids
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.
The Yellow Arrow
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
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.
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
The Blue Lantern and Other Stories
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.