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Stories by the renowned Russian wizard, now available in a paperback edition. Victor Pelevin is "the only young Russian novelist to have made an impression in the West" (Village Voice). A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, 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. "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 Publishers Weekly noted, "Pelevin's allegories are reminiscent of children's fairy tales in their fantastic depictions of

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Author

Victor Pelevin

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811213943

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (708 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14