{"product_id":"9780811218603","title":"A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia","description":"Victor Pelevin is \"the only young Russian novelist to have made an impression in the West\" (\u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e, the second of Pelevin's Russian Booker Prize-winning short story collections, continues his Sputnik-like rise. The writers to whom he is frequently compared—Kafka, Bulgakov, Philip K. Dick, and Joseph Heller—are all deft fabulists, who find fuel for their fires in society's deadening protocol.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\"At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery,\" begins the story \"Sleep.\" Nikita's discovery is that everyone around him, from parents to television talk-show hosts, is actually asleep. In \"Vera Pavlova's Ninth Dream,\" the attendant in a public toilet finds that her researches into solipsism have dire and diabolical consequences. In the title story, a young Muscovite, Sasha, stumbles upon a group of people in the forest who can transform themselves into wolves. As \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e noted, \"Pelevin's allegories are reminiscent of children's fairy tales in their fantastic depictions of worlds within worlds, solitary souls tossed helplessly among them.\" Pelevin—whom \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e called \"a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human\"—carries us in \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e to a land of great sublimity and black comic brilliance.\r\n\r\n","brand":"Victor Pelevin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Classics","offer_id":67728595386592,"sku":null,"price":16.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4eeec9fe-e9a9-493c-a368-b2ffcad631aa.jpg?v=1791128165","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/9780811218603","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}