Life of insects. Chapaev and Emptiness. Generation "

Victor Pelevin is one of the most famous modern writers whose novels of the 1990s collected in this volume largely influenced the development of Russian literature. A reality intertwined with phantasmagoria, the eccentricity of the plot, the combination of heterogeneous techniques became the key to the unchanging success of V. Pelevin"s works among readers.
The life of insects is a special phantasmagoric world in which the most ordinary phenomena of post -Soviet reality are a reflection of eternal magical rituals. The world in which people-comers, motons and scarab people try to know themselves, but, revealing a lie, do not approach the truth, but, multiplying a lie, do not move away from the truth.
The hero of the novel Chapaev and Emptiness-the patient of the psychiatric hospital Peter the Void, who imagined himself as a decente. He lives in two different eras: in 1919 he meets Chapaev, serves his division commissar, falls in love with the Anku and even almost perishes in battle, and in another reality meets with Kawabata, Schwarzenegger and “just Maria” ...
Over the years that have passed from the release of Generation “P”, customers and manufacturers of advertising have changed, computer reality has become more important than television. But the cult status of the novel has not changed: the parables in it turned out to be stronger than the momentary. Young people still recognize themselves in Tatar Babilee, and spiritualistic sessions with commandanta Che reveal the truth about the nature of man and society