The clay machine-gun - Softcover

Victor Pelevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571194060 ISBN 13: 9780571194063

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1999

Synopsis

A manic satire of psychiatry, crime and corruption in Russia. Peter Null is undergoing treatment in Moscow's Psychiatric Clinic number 17, where his consultant believes the way to treat his condition is to humour his delusive personality until it achieves reintegration with the rest of his psyche.

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About the Author

Born in 1962 in Moscow, Victor Pelevin has swiftly been recognised as the leading Russian novelist of the new generation. Before studying at Moscow's Gorky Institute of Literature, he worked in a number of jobs, including as an engineer on a project to protect MiG fighter planes from insect interference in tropical conditions. One of the few novelists today who writes seriously about what is happening in contemporary Russia, he has, according to the New York Times, 'the kind of mordant, astringent turn of mind that in the pre-glasnost era landed writers in psychiatric hospitals or exile'.His work has been translated into fifteen languages and his novels Omon Ra, The Life of Insects, The Clay Machine-Gun and Babylon, and two collections of short stories, The Blue Lantern (winner of the Russian 'Little Booker' Prize) and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, have been published in English to great acclaim.Victor Pe

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Introduction: Russian

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571194060
• ISBN 13: 9780571194063
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 345