Victor Pelevin. Songs of the Kingdom of "I"

As the author himself says, the action of the novel "Chapaev and Pustota" "takes place in absolute emptiness." In reality, it takes place in Chapaev's division, where the protagonist, the decadent poet Pyotr Pustota, serves as a commissar, as well as in the present day, and, as always with Pelevin, in virtual space...
In the novel "The Life of Insects," the characters are simultaneously human (racketeers, drug addicts, mystics, prostitutes) and insects. This collection of characters is both real and imaginary, allowing the writer to depict our reality with caustic wit.
"Omon Ra" is the story of how the Soviet government deceived its people and the international community by allegedly launching spacecraft into space. Even the so-called "cosmonauts" themselves believed they had visited the Moon.
A train going to nowhere and never is the setting for the story "The Yellow Arrow." This train is the only living space in which the characters exist.
The hero of the novel "Generation P," Vavilen Tatarsky, believes he knows the true value of advertising—after all, he creates it. But even in his wildest dreams, he couldn't imagine the true power of the genie he's unleashed...