Stories by the renowned Russian wizard. Victor Pelevin is "the only young Russian novelist to have made an impression in the West" (Village Voice). A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, the second of Pelevin's Russian Booker Prize-winning short story collections, continues his Sputnik-like rise. The writers to whom he is frequently comparedKafka, Bulgakov, Philip K. Dick, and Joseph Hellerare all deft fabulists, who find fuel for their fires in society's deadening protocol. "At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery," begins the story "Sleep." Nikita's discovery is that everyone around him, from parents to television talk-show hosts, is actually asleep. In "Vera Pavlova's Ninth Dream," the attendant in a public toilet finds that her researches into solipsism have dire and diabolical consequences. In the title story, a young Muscovite, Sasha, stumbles upon a group of people in the forest who can transform themselves into wolves. As Publishers Weekly noted, "Pelevin's allegories are reminiscent of children's fairy tales in their fantastic depictions of worlds within worlds, solitary souls tossed helplessly among them." Pelevinwhom Spin called "a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human"carries us in A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia to a land of great sublimity and black comic brilliance.
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Born in Yorkshire, England, Andrew Bromfield is a translator of Russian literature and an editor and co-founder of the literary journal Glas.
Victor Pelevin is one of Russia’s most successful post-Soviet writers. He won the Russian Booker prize in 1993 Born on November 22, 1962 in Moscow, he attended the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, and the Institute of Literature. He’s now been published throughout Europe. His books include A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, Omon Ra, The Blue Lantern, The Yellow Arrow, and The Hall of the Singing Caryatids.
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Soft cover. Condición: Good -. Reprint. 8 Stories by the renowned Russian wizard. "A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia", is the second of Pelevin's Russian Booker Prize-winning short story collections. He searches for fuel in society's deadening protocol: * In "The Tarzan Swing," a street wanderer converses with a stranger who could be his own reflection. * "At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery," begins the story "Sleep." Nikita's discovery is that everyone around him, from parents to television talk-show hosts, are actually asleep. * In "Vera Pavlova's Ninth Dream," the attendant in a public toilet finds that her researches into solipsism have dire and diabolical consequences. * In the title story, a young Muscovite, Sasha, stumbles upon a group of people in the forest who can transform themselves into wolves. Pelevin¿whom Spin called "a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human"¿carries us in "A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia" to a sublime land of black comic brilliance. Large paperback shows handling wear, but no storage or reading creases. Indents on front cover as if paper-clip were used as a bookmark. ink marks on rear cover. Interior is tight & clean, but with notes in margins & underlining throughout. Still extremely viable as a study copy. Copyrights 1994, 1998 (English Translation). No edition/print-run info found, although the New Direction Paperback edition was 1st published in 2003. New Directions catalog: NDP959. ISBN: 0-8112-1543-1. LCCN: 98-17488. MSR = $12.95. Nº de ref. del artículo: 006880
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