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The Insect Play
Written in 1921 by the Karel and Josef Čapek, The Insect Play (Ze života hmyzu) Is a masterful fantastic farce in which an inebriated drifter, disgusted with humanity, wanders into the forest, and observes the lives of the insects around … Continue reading
Viktor Pelevin’s The Life of Insects (Жизнь насекомых)
“Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” -Zhuangzi Years ago I was thankfully urged to read the novel The … Continue reading
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Tagged ant, cicada, literature, Marianna markaki, Mikhail Bulgakov, mosquito, moth, Russia, scarab, Viktor pelevin, Yulia Medveditskova
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