Buddha's Little Finger
14 hrs. 29 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Viktor Pelevin
Author
Viktor Pelevin
Narrator
Elena Lebedeva
Narrator
Elena Lebedeva
Description
The novel’s main character, Pyotr Pustota, is a commissioner, a decadent poet, and a patient in a psychiatric hospital. He lives in two different worlds, in two different eras. His mind and experiences are torn between 1919, the Moscow of the nineties, and virtual space. He cannot fully understand what is real and what is only the product of his wildly playing imagination.
As always, Viktor Pelevin leaves the reader in constant uncertainty and adds to an already tangled story with with biting satire and Eastern mysticism.
The novel “Chapaev and Void” is characterized by the author himself like this: “This is the first work in world literature whose action takes place in absolute emptiness.”
In reality, it happens in 1919 in the Chapaev division, where the main character—Pyotr Pustota, a decadent poet—serves as a commissioner, and also in our days, and, as always with Pelevin, in virtual space, where the hero meets Kawabata, Schwarzenegger, “Just Maria”…
According to critics, “Chapaev and Void” is “the first serious Zen-Buddhist novel in Russian literature.”
As always, Viktor Pelevin leaves the reader in constant uncertainty and adds to an already tangled story with with biting satire and Eastern mysticism.
The novel “Chapaev and Void” is characterized by the author himself like this: “This is the first work in world literature whose action takes place in absolute emptiness.”
In reality, it happens in 1919 in the Chapaev division, where the main character—Pyotr Pustota, a decadent poet—serves as a commissioner, and also in our days, and, as always with Pelevin, in virtual space, where the hero meets Kawabata, Schwarzenegger, “Just Maria”…
According to critics, “Chapaev and Void” is “the first serious Zen-Buddhist novel in Russian literature.”
