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Victor Pelevin's highly acclaimed story collection, The Blue Lantern, winner of the Russian Little Booker Prize, gathers eight of his very best stories. Various, delightful, and uncategorizable, the stories are highly addictive. Pelevin here, as in The Yellow Arrow (New Directions, 1996), Omon Ra (ND, 1997), and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (ND, 1998), pays great attention to the meaning of life, in earnest and as spoof. In the title story, kids in a Pioneer-camp tell terrifying bedtime stories; in "Hermits and Six-Toes," two chickens are obsessed with the nature of the universe as viewed from their poultry plant; the young communist-league activists of "Mid-Game" change their sex to become hard-currency prostitutes; and "The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII" is the story of a storage hut whose dream is to become a bicycle.
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The Blue Lantern collects nine stories from one of Russia's most promising young talents, Victor Pelevin. Also the author of Omon Ra, a darkly comic novel about an aspiring cosmonaut who ends up piloting a supposedly unmanned Soviet spacecraft, Pelevin is often characterized as a science fiction writer. But nobody will mistake Pelevin's work for Frank Herbert's anytime soon; his stories spring from the same tradition of grotesquely surreal comedy as Gogol's roving nose and Bulgakov's talking cat.
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In "Hermit and Six-Toes," for instance, two mystical philosophers turn out to be chickens from the Lunacharsky Broiler Combine. In between discussions of the organization of the heavens, the impassability of the Wall of the World, and the divine hierarchies of the Feeder, they manage to escape from the "Decisive Stage" into another coop. When the new flock hails them as prophets, Hermit and Six-Toes preach a doctrine of fasting and exercising themselves into an unappetizing state. It's a very funny story, with political implications that are impossible to ignore. (The fat chickens that reside nearest to the Feeder, for instance, ape Communist party slogans.) Animal Farm this isn't, however; these chickens are more concerned with defining the nature of reality than with social injustice. Like Hermit and Six-Toes, Pelevin deals in shattered realities and partial truths rather than ideologies, and his stories showcase a unique sensibility, one that is equal parts mystic and satirist.
Born in Moscow in 1962, VICTOR PELEVIN has established a reputation as one of the most interesting of the younger generation of Russian writers. He has degrees from Moscow s Gorky Institute of Literature and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and Open City. He was selected by the New Yorker as one of the Best European Writers Under 35 and by The Observer as one of the 21 Writers for the 21st Century. His novel Numbers won the Grigoriev Prize from the Russian Academy of Critics 2004.
Born in Yorkshire, England, Andrew Bromfield is a translator of Russian literature and an editor and co-founder of the literary journalGlas.
Born in Yorkshire, England, Andrew Bromfield is a translator of Russian literature and an editor and co-founder of the literary journalGlas.
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0811213706
- ISBN 13 9780811213707
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