The Clay Machine-Gun
( Russian - Chapayev i Pustota ( Чапаев и Пустота ) - 1996 )
novel by Victor Pelevin
translated by Andrew Bromfield
Published: Faber and Faber - trade paperback - 1999
ISBN: 0571194060 / 9780571194063
Faber and Faber - paperback - 2000
ISBN: 0571201261 / 9780571201266
synopsis
A manic satire of psychiatry, crime and corruption in Russia. Peter Null is undergoing treatment in Moscow's Psychiatric Clinic number 17, where his consultant believes the way to treat his condition is to humour his delusive personality until it achieves reintegration with the rest of his psyche.
The action cuts deliriously between present-day Moscow and 1919, the era of the Civil War, in which the narrator finds himself serving as a commissar in the division of the legendary commander Vasily Chapaev, and his formidable machine-gunner sidekick, Anna.
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( Russian - Chapayev i Pustota ( Чапаев и Пустота ) - 1996 )
novel by Victor Pelevin
translated by Andrew Bromfield
Published: Faber and Faber - trade paperback - 1999
ISBN: 0571194060 / 9780571194063
Faber and Faber - paperback - 2000
ISBN: 0571201261 / 9780571201266
synopsis
A manic satire of psychiatry, crime and corruption in Russia. Peter Null is undergoing treatment in Moscow's Psychiatric Clinic number 17, where his consultant believes the way to treat his condition is to humour his delusive personality until it achieves reintegration with the rest of his psyche.
The action cuts deliriously between present-day Moscow and 1919, the era of the Civil War, in which the narrator finds himself serving as a commissar in the division of the legendary commander Vasily Chapaev, and his formidable machine-gunner sidekick, Anna.
awards
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