The Clay Machine-Gun

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An intellectually dazzling and hilarious fantasy about identity and Russian history, and a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy, The Clay Machine-Gun confirms Victor Pelevin as 'one of the brightest stars in the Russian literary firmament' Observer. "Victor Pelevin is the future of the Russian növel. His satires take the temperature of post-Soviet Russia, in all its amoral, dystopian chaos . . . With his fusion of orientál and sci-fi, there's no mistaking Pelevin's place in the absurdist pantheon alongside Gogol and Bulgakov.' Independent 'Pelevin's pin-sharp and po-faced philosophical prose convincingly sets you up in one world, ravelling your head in a spider's web of connections and absurdities, before sucker-punching you clear into another. There's no other writer like him.' Time Out The ingredients of The Clay Machine-Gun? Vodka, magic mushrooms, cocaine, sophistry, philosophy, madness, Buddhism, Lenin, Schwarzenegger. And a love of literature. Pelevin leads us into a... Tovább

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An intellectually dazzling and hilarious fantasy about identity and Russian history, and a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy, The Clay Machine-Gun confirms Victor Pelevin as 'one of the brightest stars in the Russian literary firmament' Observer. "Victor Pelevin is the future of the Russian növel. His satires take the temperature of post-Soviet Russia, in all its amoral, dystopian chaos . . . With his fusion of orientál and sci-fi, there's no mistaking Pelevin's place in the absurdist pantheon alongside Gogol and Bulgakov.' Independent 'Pelevin's pin-sharp and po-faced philosophical prose convincingly sets you up in one world, ravelling your head in a spider's web of connections and absurdities, before sucker-punching you clear into another. There's no other writer like him.' Time Out The ingredients of The Clay Machine-Gun? Vodka, magic mushrooms, cocaine, sophistry, philosophy, madness, Buddhism, Lenin, Schwarzenegger. And a love of literature. Pelevin leads us into a deranged post-Soviet universe with all the diabolical ease of the great Russian masters. He is a devil who can warp and deny reality, so that his readers can see it more clearly.' Le Nouvel Observateur 'Just as critics were ready to pronounce Russian literature dead, along came Victor Pelevin. Floating near the top of the bestseller lists, his puckish satires laced with philosophical meditations have been compared to the work of Martin Amis and Franz Kafka . . . Pelevin is the brightest star of the post-Soviet generation.' Time Victor Pelevin Vissza