Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219426
A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.
Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811213646
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.
Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214919
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 28,62 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 : Igor Vishnevetsky
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564789381
Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and poetry, excerpts from private letters and diaries, and quotes from newspapers and NKVD documents, is a unique amalgam of documentary, philosophical novel, and black humor. Revolving around three central characters—a composer; his lover, Vera; and Vera's husband, a naval officer intercepting enemy communications—we are made witness to the inhuman conditions prevailing during the Siege of Leningrad, against a background of starvation and continuous bombing. In their wild attempts to survive, the protagonists hold on to their art, ideals, and sentiments—hoping that these might somehow remain uncorrupted despite the Bolsheviks, Nazis, and even death itself.
Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811213240
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.
Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,73 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 : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811221687
From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.
Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811222772
Nathalie Sarraute's stunning debut—vignettes of "inner movements"—foreshadowed the rise of the nouveau roman. Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as the “movements that are hidden under the commonplace, harmless instances of our everyday lives.” Like figures in a grainy photograph, Sarraute’s characters are blurred and shadowy, while her narrative never develops beyond a stressed moment. Instead, Sarraute brilliantly finds and elaborates subtle details—when a relationship changes, when we fall slightly deeper into love, or when something innocent tilts to the smallest degree toward suspicion.
Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811225704
A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”
