Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics. With consummate literary skill Pelevin creates a satirical bestiary which is as realistic as it is delirious - a bitter parable of contemporary Russia, full of the probing, disenchanted comedy that makes Pelevin a vital and altogether surprising writer.
- ISBN10 0374186251
- ISBN13 9780374186258
- Publish Date 1 February 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 179
- Language English