“All the Stories and Essays” by Victor Pelevin is one of the writer’s iconic books. Using it - like an oracle - you can guess about the true meaning of our life, opening at random either the legendary story “The Yellow Arrow” or the philosophical parable “The Recluse and the Six-Fingered “Thanks to the hero of “Prince of Gosplan”, future generations will remember the best computer game of the nineties “Prince of Persia”, and immediately, plunging into the myths and practices of werewolves, our descendants will read with bated breath the story “The Werewolf Problem in the Middle Zone”. In this book there is everything for which Pelevin is loved. Strength and knowledge, daring wit and subtle self-irony, fascinating stories at the intersection of reality and the otherworldly, a style recognizable from the very first lines, where every word is worth its weight in gold. Contents: The Recluse and the Six-Fingered (story) The Werewolf Problem in the Middle Zone (story) Day of the Bulldozer Driver (story) Prince of the State Planning Committee (story) Yellow Arrow (story) Macedonian criticism of French thought (story) State Emergency Committee as a Tetragrammaton (essay) Zombification. The experience of comparative anthropology (essay)John Fowles and the tragedy of Russian liberalism (essay)Ixtlan - Petushki (essay)Names of the oligarchs on the map of the Motherland (essay)The bridge that I wanted to cross (essay)