{"product_id":"a-werewolf-problem-in-central-russia-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor Pelevin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Bromfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Pelevin is the only young Russian novelist to have made an impression in the West (\u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e, the second of Pelevin's Russian Booker Prize-winning short story collections, continues his Sputnik-like rise. The writers to whom he is frequently compared--Kafka, Bulgakov, Philip K. Dick, and Joseph Heller--are all deft fabulists, who find fuel for their fires in society's deadening protocol.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery, begins the story Sleep. Nikita's discovery is that everyone around him, from parents to television talk-show hosts, is actually asleep. In Vera Pavlova's Ninth Dream, the attendant in a public toilet finds that her researches into solipsism have dire and diabolical consequences. In the title story, a young Muscovite, Sasha, stumbles upon a group of people in the forest who can transform themselves into wolves. As \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e noted, Pelevin's allegories are reminiscent of children's fairy tales in their fantastic depictions of worlds within worlds, solitary souls tossed helplessly among them. Pelevin--whom \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e called a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human--carries us in \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e to a land of great sublimity and black comic brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757719388448,"sku":"9780811218603","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0782fe2c7c184759cfdd201044a734c2.webp?v=1780109947","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-werewolf-problem-in-central-russia-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}