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The Life of Insects

Viktor Pelevin

出版	Penguin Books, 1999
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Fantasy / GeneralFiction / Visionary & Metaphysical
ISBN	01402797259780140279726
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DmopAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Set in a crumbling resort hotel on the Black Sea, the novel follows the misadventures of the Russian duo Arnold and Arthur and the khaki-clad Sam, a visiting American. The twist is that these characters are depicted alternately as human beings and as insects: now they are humans with buggy qualities; now they are insects that walk and talk. As they forage, quarrel, joke, and suck blood in the squalid rooms of the old hotel - and on the bodies of their hosts - they invariably get into trouble. In one chapter, a couple of hemp bugs suddenly find themselves being smoked in somebody else's pipe; in another, two moths flitting around a streetlight discuss the meaning of life in Beckett-like dialogue.