Chapayev and Pustota

Name: Chapayev and Pustota
Author: Viktor Pelevin

by Viktor Pelevin

Experimental novel about a madman writing a manifesto in a psychiatric ward

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Viktor Pelevin

Russian author whose satirical and psychedelic fiction deconstructing post-Soviet Russia has made him one of the most widely read Russian novelists of his generation. The Life of Insects and Generation P are his most celebrated works.

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