num_pages: 158
description: Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, Victor Pelevin's 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, extends the surreal comic range for which his 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, with a disenchanted energy reminiscent of Gogol.
language: English
title: The life of insects
titlecomplete: The life of insects
genres: Short Stories, Russia, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 4321
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Harbord