What do you think of his work? He doesn't seem to be talked about round here often
>>25273181I tried reading Omon ra. Iiked the bit where the secret police hypnotize one of the cosmonaut candidates into believing (or reliving) the fact he was an SS officer in his past life and then executing him for it, but other than that I found it very bland. Just a string of wacky things happening. Yeah, Russia is absurd, I get it, but I’d like a good plot, prose, and characters to go alongside that like other Russian authors before him managed to do.
>>25273181Buddha's Little Finger is one of my favourite books and I'm currently reading Babylon, only 30 pages in but I really like where it seems to be going. I have a copy of Omon Ra which I have yet to read. Overall I think he's pretty great. One of the few great writers left
>>25273181Too much of the same after the first books.
Is that a marijuana cigarette
>>25273181An absurdist misery porn, where events and the very fact, that it is an absurdist misery porn, are just a meth amphora of life, misery, injustice and power tripping of those with power in Russia.Effect is triplicated for anybody in post-USSR countries.Don't recommend. It is too damaging for your psyche. You will not get a better understanding of anything if you don't understand it already, and you will just get hurt a lot in exchange for a retreading things you already know if you do.
>>25273181I love how Galkovsky is to this day extremely butthurt over Pelevin's friendly banter in one of his book.
