 Buddha's Little Finger US version title | |
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
|---|---|
| Original title | Чапаев и Пустота |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Psychological novel, Satire |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | Russia |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Chapayev and Pustota (Russian: Чапаев и Пустота), known in the US as Buddha's Little Finger and in the UK as Clay Machine Gun, is a 1996 novel by Victor Pelevin.[1][2] It follows the dreams of three Moscow mental patients in the early 1990s, with the main protagonist imagining flashbacks to the Russian Civil War, in which he was enlisted by a legendary Bolshevik commander.
Buddha's Little Finger has been compared to the works of Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov; it contains many satirical vignettes, and blurs the line between dream and reality.[3] While the novel brought Pelevin fame, it divided literary critics. A film adaption, Buddha's Little Finger by Tony Pemberton, was released in 2015.[4]
- ^ Чебоненко, Оксана Сергеевна (2011). "Литературные интерпретации жизненных смыслов дзэн-буддийского Востока в произведениях XX в. (на примере романа В.О. Пелевина "Чапаев и Пустота")". Вестник Бурятского Государственного Университета (in Russian) (10). ISSN 1994-0866.
- ^ "Buddha's Little Finger". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ Offman, Craig (2000-05-05). ""Buddha's Little Finger" by Victor Pelevin". Salon. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ^ Pemberton, Tony (2015-09-01), Buddha's Little Finger (Drama), Toby Kebbell, Karine Vanasse, Trystan Pütter, Ivan Shvedoff, Rohfilm, Amérique Film, Cine Plus, retrieved 2021-03-09