Chapayev and Void
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. 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. A film adaption, Buddha's Little Finger by Tony Pemberton, was released in 2015.