A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia
$40.67
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2010
Summary
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 compared-Kafka, Bulgakov, Philip K. Dick, and Joseph Heller-are 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811218603 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0811218600 |
| Author: | Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Imprint: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Pelevin has emerged as that unusual thing: a genuinely popular serious writer. (The New York Times) Antic and allegorical, these tales chronicle the absurdities of post-Soviet, postmodern Russia. (New York Times Book Review) Brilliantly and poignantly satirizes the economic, cultural and spiritual decay of Mother Russia under Communism. (Publishers Weekly) These are the kind of stories you just delight in reading and re-reading. (NPR, Morning Edition, Nancy Pearl) These short stories are so irretrievably weird that they glow like the bears must glow in the woods around Chernobyl. (Bruce Sterling, The Week)”
About The Author
Victor Pelevin
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. Born in Yorkshire, England, Andrew Bromfield is a translator of Russian literature and an editor and co-founder of the literary journal Glas.
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