Cover of The Blue Lantern: And Other Stories

The Blue Lantern: And Other Stories

by Victor Pelevin · 1991

Want to readNightstandReading nowReadDid not finish

A collection of short stories which are a spoof on the meaning of life. Kids in a Pioneer camp tell scary bedtime stories, two chickens are obsessed with the nature of the universe as viewed from their poultry plant and the young communists change their sex to become prostitutes.

Genre
science fictionfantasy
Setting
russia
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages
Form
short stories

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Amazon ↗Google Books ↗Open Library ↗Hardcover ↗

Liked The Blue Lantern: And Other Stories? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Blue Lantern: And Other Stories. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Dragon: Fifteen Stories Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1968 Shares russian, short stories, russian literature
  2. The Galosh Mikhail Zoshchenko · 1968 Shares russian, short stories, russian literature
  3. The Fierce and Beautiful World Andrei Platonov · 1970 Shares russian, short stories, russian literature
  4. Moscow 2042 Vladimir Voinovich · 1987 Shares russian, russian literature, russia
See more recommendations →

“People who read The Blue Lantern: And Other Stories tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The House on the Embankment Yury Trifonov · 1976
  2. Thirst Ken Kalfus · 1998
  3. Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime Richard Pipes · 1993
  4. A School for Fools Sasha Sokolov · 1976

“If you want more of the same (science fiction), start with these.”

  1. Bobok Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1873
  2. The Best Short Stories Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2010
  3. The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories Alexander Pushkin · 1834
  4. Free onlineFree The Queen of Spades and Other Stories Alexander Pushkin · 1834

“If it was the russian that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Her Lover Maxim Gorky · 1897
  2. On the Golden Porch Tatyana Tolstaya · 1987
  3. The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky · 1971
  4. A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories Natalya Baranskaya · 1973

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs R.C. Welch · 1991
  2. Buffalo West Wing Julie Hyzy · 2010
  3. Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food Steve Striffler · 2005
  4. The Too-Scary Story Bethanie Deeney Murguia

Report a problem