The Blue Lantern: Stories
by Viktor Pelevin
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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 show more 'the real thing, fiction of world class'. show lessTags
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A parte il primo racconto, il resto non mi è piaciuto per niente.. "l'Eremita e Seidita" l'ho trovato tedioso; "Nika" lasciamo stare x_x e così purtroppo anche per i racconti restanti. Peccato perché il primo "Notizie dal Nepal" è bellissimo, mi ha ricordato molto le atmosfere alla Bulgakov
This is some of the most original writing I've read since Confederacy of Dunces! Highly reccommended. I especially love Hermit and Six-Toes.
Incredible. Just incredible. Every one of these stories.
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- Original language
- Russian
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
- LCC
- PG3485 .E38 .A23 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1961-2000
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- Languages
- English, Italian, Russian, Turkish
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- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 7
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