Inner Mongolia
Tony Wood: Victor Pelevin, 10 June 1999
The Life of Insects
by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Faber, 176 pp., £6.99, April 1999,0 571 19405 2 Show More
by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Faber, 176 pp., £6.99, April 1999,
The Clay Machine-Gun
by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Faber, 335 pp., £9.99, April 1999,0 571 19406 0 Show More
by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Faber, 335 pp., £9.99, April 1999,
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories
by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Harbord, 191 pp., £9.99, May 1999,1 899414 35 5 Show More
by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Harbord, 191 pp., £9.99, May 1999,
“... on the book. Much of his work is now available in English, smoothly and wittily translated by Andrew Bromfield. Pelevin has a relentlessly black sense of humour, and a satirical touch and use of the fantastic reminiscent of Bulgakov. His mastery of street language goes with a gift for extravagant simile: the sky is ‘like an old, worn mattress ... ”