The life of insects
Original title: Zhiznʹ nasekomykh
Translated by Andrew Bromfield earliest edition we have, 1996 Faber and Faber, 1999 paperback 160 pages
Set in a crumbling resort hotel on the Black Sea, the novel follows the misadventures of the Russian duo Arnold and Arthur and the khaki-clad Sam, a visiting American. The twist is that these characters are depicted alternately as human beings and as insects: now they are humans with buggy qualities; now they are insects that walk and talk. As they forage, quarrel, joke, and suck blood in the squalid rooms of the ol...
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