Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214346
Comic stories by a Russian writer. In Hermit and Six Toes, chickens debate the nature of the world, which is ruled by bloodthirsty gods in white coats, while in Mid-Game, young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes.
Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9780571200184
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'.
Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811215435
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.
Author : Stephanie Sandler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300071498
Russia's poets hold a special place in Russian culture, perhaps revealing more about their country than poets within any other nation. In this unique and wide-ranging collection of writings on poets and poetic trends in Russia, contributors from the United States, Britain, and Russia examine the place of poetry in Russian culture. Through a variety of critical approaches, these scholars, translators, and poets consider a broad cross section of Russian poets, from Pushkin to Brodsky, Shvarts, and Kibirov.
Author : Adam Mars-Jones
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
ISBN :
Three stories by a new writer: the title story is an amusing account of the disorders which are the normal occurence of Philip Yorke's life, the last squire of Erdigg driving in his acient Morris Cowley with a bicycle on the roof for lifeboat duty. The second story, Hoosh-mi, is a satire of royalty and the last and longest, Bathpool Park, is concerned with the law.
Author : Christopher West
Publisher : Berkley Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1998-08
Category : China
ISBN : 9780425164082
Set in modern China, West's mystery parallels the solution of a crime with the struggle of political loyalties in the mind of dedicated Beiging police detective Wang Anzhuang. Wang was a loyal party member, but his failth was shaken by the brutality of Tianamen Saquare. Now when a murder points to Triad mob treachery leading to the Party, Wang must confront his faith once again, reconciling loyalty with duty, while fighting for his reputation, and his life.
Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385753195
“An atmospheric late-1930s adventure with old-time cinematic appeal. Fans of fast-paced, far-fetched action will lap it up as enthusiastically as Sam swallows his favorite brand of sardines.” —Kirkus Reviews Lantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear him, that is) who lives on board the Lake Erie Shoreliner train and is one of the best detectives no one knows about. He doesn’t have much patience for humans (unless they bring him sardines), but when 10-year-old traveler Henry can’t find his new friend, the exuberant Ellie, Sam’s enlisted to help. A ransom note is soon discovered and just like that, Sam and Henry are on the case, with the help of Clarence the Conductor (who supplies Sam’s sardines). But is Ellie still on board the train? Did the salesman with his trunk full of samples sneak her off? And why does that couple keep acting so suspiciously? Veteran middle-grade mystery author Michael D. Beil has crafted a hilarious and appealing adventure set in the 1930s that’s chock-full of quirky characters and red herrings, and all with an irresistible cat at its center.
Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Black Sea Coast
ISBN : 9780571194056
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. With consummate literary skill Pelevin creates a satirical bestiary which is as realistic as it is delirious - a bitter parable of contemporary Russia, full of the probing, disenchanted comedy that makes Pelevin a vital and altogether surprising writer.
Author : Chris Philo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1083 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351879588
This volume tackles the complex terrain of theory and methods, seeking to exemplify the major philosophical, social-theoretic and methodological developments - some with clear political and ethical implications - that have traversed human geography since the era of the 1960s when spatial science came to the fore. Coverage includes Marxist and humanistic geographies, and their many variations over the years, as well as ongoing debates about agency-structure and the concepts of time, space, place and scale. Feminist and other 'positioned' geographies, alongside poststructuralist and posthumanist geographies, are all evidenced, as well as writings that push against the very 'limits' of what human geography has embraced over these fifty plus years. The volume combines readings that are well-known and widely accepted as 'classic', with readings that, while less familiar, are valuable in how they illustrate different possibilities for theory and method within the discipline. The volume also includes a substantial introduction by the editor, contextualising the readings, and in the process providing a new interpretation of the last half-century of change within the thoughts and practices of human geography.
Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101655844
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.
