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It is an allegory of human life, realized by comparison with the life of insects (which is an obvious parallel to the play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek Pictures from the Insects' Life (1921). The characters chosen by the author are typical representatives of the society of the early 1990s.
Jan 1, 2001 · Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) 3.85. 4,506 ratings196 reviews. 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 ...
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Feb 1, 1998 · An ingenious and cryptic allegorical fantasy, obviously inspired by Karel apek's classic play The Insect Comedy, in which characters exist simultaneously as human beings and as various insects—by the prize-winning young Russian author of Omon Ra and The Yellow Arrow (both 1996). Pelevin's story consists of a number of linked episodes all set in the immediate environs of a seaside resort hotel where Samuel Sacker, a visiting American businessman, confers with his Russian associates-to-be ...
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The Life Of Insects. The main building of the old resort hotel, half hidden from view behind a screen of old poplars and cypresses, was an oppressive, gray structure which seemed to have turned its back to the sea at the bidding of some crazed fairy-tale conjuror. The facade, with its columns, cracked stars, and sheaves of wheat bent eternally ...
Jan 1, 1998 · The Life of Insects. Hardcover – January 1, 1998. A satiric parable of life in contemporary Rusia follows the misadventures of two men and an American as they forage, quarrel, joke, and act like human insects in a Black Sea resort, which, like their country, is falling apart. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
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Jun 30, 1999 · Paperback – June 30, 1999. 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.
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- Victor Pelevin
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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 ...
