Viktor Olegovič Pelevin Libri

La Freccia gialla è un treno di cui non si vede né la testa né la coda, che corre senza mai fermarsi, verso la sua destinazione finale: un ponte distrutto. I passeggeri conducono i loro mille piccoli traffici quotidiani, ignari del destino che li attende e quando uno di loro muore, il corpo viene gettato dal finestrino secondo i rituali consolidati di un vero e proprio cerimoniale. L'unico che riesce a scuotersi dall'ipnosi del suono ininterrotto delle ruote è il protagonista, Andrej, che decide di mettersi alla ricerca di un modo per scendere. Ma molte domande lo ossessionano e lo frenano: cos'è davvero il treno? Chi sono i suoi passeggeri? E cosa c'è (ammesso che qualcosa ci sia) al di fuori del treno? Contiene i racconti: Un ospite alla festa di Bon ; Nota sulla ricerca del vento.

Victor Pelevin, the iconoclastic and wildly interesting contemporary Russian novelist who The New Yorker named one of the Best European Writers Under 35, upends any conventional notions of what mythology must be with his unique take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. By creating a mesmerizing world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide, The Helmet of Horror is a radical retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur set in an Internet chat room. They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms that open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue they cannot escape — a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror. Its wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown. The Helmet of Horror is structured according to the way we communicate in the twenty-first century — using the Internet — yet instilled with the figures and narratives of classical mythology. It is a labyrinthine examination of epistemological uncertainty that radically reinvents this myth for an age where information is abundant but knowledge ultimately unattainable.

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 . . .

Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics.

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.