Viktor Olegovič Pelevin Livres

Natacha, Marina, Arthur et Arnold, Serioja et les autres sont tout à la fois des Russes très ordinaires et, comme chacun d'entre nous sans doute, des insectes. Tout ce petit monde à mandibules et élytres tue le temps comme il peut dans une station balnéaire de Crimée : on se saoule à la Vodka ou à l'eau de Cologne, on fume du hash, on danse, on baise, on philosophe au clair de lune, on rêve de l'Amérique et de l'avenir capitaliste radieux. Et en même temps on volette, on pique et suce le sang, on roule sa boule de fumier, on meurt collé au papier tue-mouches, écrasé par une semelle inattentive ou dévorés par ses congénères. La vie, enfin.

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.

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.

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 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'.

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

A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.

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.

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.

S.N.U.F.F. is a hard-hitting and timely satirical story about war, revolution and their relationship with the media.