The life of insects

Viktor Olegovich Pelevin

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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Editions we hold

Zhiznʹ nasekomykh edition · 2002 · Vagrius · 238 pages
The life of insects edition · 1999 · Penguin Books · 179 pages
The Life of Insects paperback · 1999 · Faber and Faber · 160 pages · 9780571194056
The life of insects edition · 1998 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 179 pages
Zhiznʹ nasekomykh edition · 1997 · Vagrius · 350 pages
The life of insects edition · 1996 · Harbord Pub. · 158 pages

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