Victor Pelevin: Buddha's Little Finger

Viktor Pelevin is one of the most famous contemporary writers whose books at the turn of the 1990s largely influenced the development of post-Soviet literature. Reality intertwined with phantasmagoria, eccentric plots, and the combination of heterogeneous techniques have become the key to the enduring success of Pelevin's works among readers. The protagonist of the novel "Chapayev and Void" is Pyotr Pustota, a psychiatric patient who imagines himself to be a decadent poet. He lives in two different eras: in 1919, he meets Chapayev, serves as a commissar in his division, falls in love with Anka, and even nearly dies in battle; while in another reality, he encounters Kawabata, Schwarzenegger, and "Simply Maria"...
Every time he falls asleep in the division of his commander Vasily Chapayev, he wakes up in a mental asylum. Pyotr is convinced that the asylum is a figment of his imagination. However, Chapayev assures him that both of these worlds are unreal and that Pyotr simply needs to wake up once and for all. But how can one do that if, instead of reality, there is only a shining void?

Author: Viktor Pelevin

Pages: 352 (newsprint) . Paperback

Dimensions: 180x115x15 mm

Series: Azbuka-klassika