Without Lifting A Finger

Not "settling in" as easily as I did with Omon Ra . Certainly part of my fault and part of my hectic life. Still, I'm enjoying it (e.g. Arnold Schwartzenegger and Just/Simply Maria) ; let's see where it ends up. Probably taking on Sorokin next. * Excerpt:      A crowd of boys was swarming around the vehicle, some of them with sledges, others on skates; the thought automatically came to mind that while the idiot adults were busy trying to rearrange a world which they had invented for themselves, the children were still living in reality -- among mountains of snow and sunlight, on the black mirrors of frozen ponds and in the mystic night silence of icy yards. And although these children were also infected with the bacillus of insanity that had invaded Russia -- this was obvious enough from the way in which they looked at Chapaev's sabre and my Mauser -- their clear eyes still shone with the memory of something which I had long ago forgotten; perhaps it was ...

Victor Olegovich Pelevin ( Russian : Ви́ктор Оле́гович Пеле́вин ; IPA:  [ˈvʲiktər ɐˈlʲɛɡəvʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈlʲevʲɪn] , born 22 November 1962) is a Russian fiction writer, the author of novels " Omon Ra ", " Chapayev and Void " and " Generation P ". He is a laureate of multiple literary awards including the Russian Little Booker Prize (1993) and the Russian National Bestseller (2004). His books are multi-layered postmodernist texts fusing elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies while carrying conventions of the science fiction genre. Some critics relate his prose to the New Sincerity literary movement. [From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin ]

Sasha Sokolov (born Александр Всеволодович Соколов/ Alexander Vsevolodovitch Sokolov on November 6, 1943, in Ottawa , Canada ) is a paradoxical writer of Russian literature . He became known worldwide in the 1970s after his first novel A School for Fools had been published by Ardis Publishing ( Ann Arbor , Michigan ) in the US, and later reissued by Four Walls Eight Windows . Sokolov is one of the most important authors of 20th-century Russian literature. He is well acclaimed for his unorthodox use of language, playing with rhythms, sounds and associations. The author himself coined the term "proeziia" for his work—in between prose and poetry. Sokolov is a Canadian citizen and has lived the larger part of his life so far in the United States. During the Second World War, his father, Major Vsevolod Sokolov, worked as a military attaché at the Soviet embassy in Canada. In 1946 Major Sokolov (agent "Davey") was deported from Canada in relation to spying activit...

Alexander Leonidovich Goldstein ( Russian : Александр Леонидович Гольдштейн ; born ( 1957-12-15 ) 15 December 1957, Tallinn , Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic — 16 July 2006 ( 2006-07-16 ) , Tel-Aviv , Israel ) — was a Russian writer and essayist. He was awarded the Russian Little Booker Prize , the Anti-Booker prize and the Andrei Bely Prize (posthumously, in the category for prose ). Biography and Work Alexander Goldstein was born in Tallinn, the son of Leonid Goldstein, a man of letters. From his early childhood on, he lived in Baku , where he later studied literature at Baku State University . From 1991 he lived in Tel-Aviv. Goldstein worked as a journalist for the newspaper Vesti , as well as other Russian-language publications, and sat on the editorial board of the Russian-Israeli journal Zerkalo . His articles were published in the books Расставание с Нарциссом ( Parting from Narcissus ) and Аспекты духовного брака ( Aspects of Spiritual Matrimony ). The first of t...

Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin ( Russian : Михаил Павлович Шишкин , born 18 January 1961) is a Russian writer. Biography Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow . Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute . After graduation he worked as a street sweeper, road worker, journalist, school teacher, and translator. He debuted as a writer in 1993, when his short story "Calligraphy Lesson" was published in Znamya magazine. Since 1995 he has lived in Zurich , Switzerland . [1] [2] He averages one book every five years. [3] Shishkin openly opposes the current Russian government, [4] calling it a "corrupt, criminal regime, where the state is a pyramid of thieves" when he pulled out of representing Russia at the 2013 Book Expo in the United States [5] Shishkin's books have been translated into more than ten languages. [6] His prose is universally praised for style, e.g., "Shishkin's language is wonderfully lucid and...