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.
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.
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.
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.
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.
Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide. The helmet of horror is structured according to the internet exchanges of the 21st century, yet instilled with the figures and narratives of classical mythology.
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
Porfiri Petrovici este un algoritm literar-polițist care investighează crime și scrie romane pe baza lor, obținând astfel fonduri pentru Direcția Poliției, în proprietatea căreia se află. Maruha Cho este o curatoare cu notorietate și bani, specializată în așa‑numitul „ipsos“ – forma de artă caracteristică primului sfert al secolului XXI. Când Maruha trebuie să analizeze unele zone murdare ale pieței de artă contemporană, îl închiriază pe Porfiri Petrovici drept asistent. Dar în relația lor ambiguă intervine iPhuck 10, cel mai recent și mai scump gadget de făcut sex de pe piață, care și el poate fi programat ca detectiv… Viktor Pelevin scrie o distopie tehnologică în care societatea, deși radical transformată, nu îi este deloc străină cititorului contemporan. În geopolitică intervin ingineria genetică și falii de netrecut, granițele dintre genuri se șterg, ca urmare a unei epidemii globale sexualitatea este despărțită definitiv de corp și devine dependentă de tehnologie, iar corpul devine, la rândul său, politic și codat. Proza algoritmică a lui Porfiri Petrovici ar putea fi o oglindă a viitorului în care dragostea, arta și tot ceea ce ne înconjoară să își vadă chipul de sfârșit de secol XXI.
Ca poet, Tatarski e doar un ratat. Însă odată devenit copywriter la una dintre cele mai mari agenții de publicitate din Moscova, câștigă două mii de dolari în zece minute – și asta înainte de a-și face efectul cocaina. Dar, gonind printr-o lume suprarealistă populată de mercenari din PR, mașini germane, afaceri pe sub mână, budism Zen, ciuperci halucinogene și înalți funcționari publici creați pe computer, începe să bănuiască adevărul îngrijorător din spatele tuturor acestora – sugerat de vocea lipsită de trup a lui Che Guevara.
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