The Blue Lantern: Stories

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The Blue Lantern: Stories

In a recent New York Times Magazine feature article, Victor Pelevin was cited as "almost alone among his generation of Russian novelists in speaking with a voice authentically his own, and in trying to write about Russian life in its current idiom." Since the publication of this collection of stories, The Blue Lantern, Pelevin's books have been translated into many languages, and Pelevin himself has been touted as a major world writer. 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 "Hermit 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 #XII" is the story of a storage hut whose dream is to become a bicycle.

Country	USA
Author	Victor Pelevin
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: New Directions Publishing
Color	White
EAN	9780811214346
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	9780811214346
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
MPN	black & white illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	192
PartNumber	black & white illustrations
PublicationDate	2000-05
Publisher	New Directions
Studio	New Directions
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Blue Lantern: Stories

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