The novel is set in a small resort town not far from Feodosia. The author places his heroes in the conditions of constant social storms and cataclysms of the post-Soviet period. Our reality is described with caustic wit, phantasmagoria is mixed with reality, irony with intellectual play. The chapters of the novel flow into one another, connected by heroes and thoughts about the vicissitudes of the surrounding world …
Some critics have defined the genre of «Insect Lives» as a fable, the «moral» of which the reader must find himself. Others agreed that this is educational, conventionally metaphorical prose, a fairy tale. Try yourself to find the main components of this exciting, sarcastic novel, and perhaps you will be able to understand the reason for the incredible success of the works of Victor Pelevin, each new book of which becomes a bestseller.
© V. Pelevin, 1993
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