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In 1998, New Directions Publishing published a short story collection, ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories''. All the works are united by a mystical theme. The book consists of eight stories written by the writer in the early 1990s. [7] A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia [6] Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream; Sleep; Tai Shou ...
A 2009 OpenSpace.ru survey voted Pelevin as the most influential intellectual in Russia. Pelevin is known for not being a part of the literary crowd, rarely appearing in public or giving interviews and preferring to communicate on the internet. When he gives interviews, he talks more about the nature of his mind rather than his writings.
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (Russian: «Священная книга оборотня ») is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2004. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This book is in the great Russian tradition of social satire running from Gogol through to Bulgakov , according to the journalists of The Guardian . [ 1 ]
In 1992, Russian author Victor Pelevin wrote a book called A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, in which there is a short story called "Prince of Gosplan". The story is greatly influenced by the game; the main hero of the story lives in a mixed reality of the real world and video games and identifies himself as Prince of Persia.
"Music from the Pillar" together with the stories "The Reconstructor", "Weapon of Retaliation" and "Kreger’s Revelation" constitute a single cycle of works in the alternative history genre.
The events of Pelevin's early period story take place in Soviet times (judging by the line "we've had so much incomprehensible stuff these seventy years" – in the second half of the 1980s).
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The story deals with themes of post-Soviet Russia, consumerism, recreational drug use, and Mesopotamian mythology. An English translation by Andrew Bromfield was published by Penguin in the US as Homo Zapiens, and by Faber and Faber in the UK as Babylon. A film adaption by Victor Ginzburg was released on 14 April 2011. [1]