The Life of Insects

The novel takes place in a small resort town near Feodosia. The author places his heroes into conditions of constant social storms and cataclysms of the post-Soviet era. With biting wit, our reality is described; fantasy is mixed with the real world, irony with an intellectual game. The chapters of the novel flow into one another, connected by the heroes and by thoughts about the fickleness of the world around them…

Some critics defined the genre of “The Insect Life” as a fable, “the moral” of which the reader must find themselves. Others agree that it is an educational, conditionally metaphorical prose, a fairy tale. Try yourself to discover the main components of this captivating, sarcastic novel—and perhaps you’ll understand the reason for Victor Pelevin’s incredible success, since every new book he writes becomes a bestseller.