The life of insects
a novel
by Viktor Olegovich Pelevin
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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 old hotel - and on the bodies of their hosts - they invariably get into trouble. In one chapter, a couple of hemp bugs suddenly find themselves being smoked in somebody else's pipe; in another, two moths flitting around a streetlight discuss the meaning of life in Beckett-like dialogue.
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The Life of Insects
July 3, 1999, Faber and Faber
Paperback
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0571194052 9780571194056
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The life of insects: a novel
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st American ed.
0374186251 9780374186258
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