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  • FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY: Insight, Faith, and Prophecy. by [Dostoevsky, Fyodor] Fueloep-Miller, Rene
    [Dostoevsky, Fyodor] Fueloep-Miller, Rene
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY: Insight, Faith, and Prophecy.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at this nineteenth century Russian writer which focuses on both the man and his work, and on his significance for our times. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. A title in the Twentieth Century Library series. Chronology, short bibliography and index. 138 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, minor edgewear to dj)

    Book ID: 61515
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  • THE LIFE OF INSECTS. by Pelevin, Victor.
    Pelevin, Victor.
    THE LIFE OF INSECTS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998). Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Russian author, one which follows the adventures and misadventures of two Russians and a khaki-clad visiting American. Set in "a sleazy Crimean resort town, where his characters eat, drink, make merry, make love... and turn into insects. This is no soft-focus allegory: the author is superbly specific about his entomological creations. 'Arthur and Arnold had turned into small mosquitoes,' he writes, "of that miserable hue of gray familiar from prerevolutionary village huts, a color that in its time had reduced many a Russian poet to tears." (William Davies) Sometimes the trio is depicted as human with buggy characteristics, and at other times as…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998). Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Russian author, one which follows the adventures and misadventures of two Russians and a khaki-clad visiting American. Set in "a sleazy Crimean resort town, where his characters eat, drink, make merry, make love... and turn into insects. This is no soft-focus allegory: the author is superbly specific about his entomological creations. 'Arthur and Arnold had turned into small mosquitoes,' he writes, "of that miserable hue of gray familiar from prerevolutionary village huts, a color that in its time had reduced many a Russian poet to tears." (William Davies) Sometimes the trio is depicted as human with buggy characteristics, and at other times as insects that walk and talk. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. In 1988 Pelevin was selected by The New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-374186251.

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    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 76455
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  • A WEREWOLF PROBLEM IN CENTRAL AISA and Other Stories. by Pelevin, Victor.
    Pelevin, Victor.
    A WEREWOLF PROBLEM IN CENTRAL AISA and Other Stories.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: New Directions, (1998). Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this award-winning "dark-comic Russian fabulist." One review commented that his work "may be grounded in the grubby realities of contemporary Russia, but the food shortages, decaying apartment blocks, and political chaos serve him as a kind of naturalistic springboard from which he launches into one antic leap after another." Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-811213943.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 76456
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  • OMON RA. by Pelevin, Victor.
    Pelevin, Victor.
    OMON RA.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). First edition - The first novel (preceded by books of short stories) by this award-winning Russian fabulist, the story of a young man who has dreamed of space flight since he was a boy, who enrolls as a cosmonaut, a devasting satire of the Soviet space program. George Saunders comments that "Pelevin is a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human, our petty squabbles, haff-assed inventions and, above all, our corruptible dreams." Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 139 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in printed gray wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 76457
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