The Blue Lantern

«The Blue Lantern» – a collection of short prose by Viktor Pelevin, first published in 1992. The absurdist style of the stories, with elements of mysticism and subtle philosophy, accurately conveys the anxious and unstable state of society at that time. The collection includes the novellas «The Recluse and the Six-Fingered», «The Prince of Gosplan», as well as the stories «The Bulldozer Operator's Day», «The Ninth Dream of Vera Pavlovna», «The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII».