ah well i can expect a good read then! [clay machingun]
stn, i would definitely rec helmet of horror, it was quite amusing/funny at times which nicely balanced out the sometimes overbearingly obtuse plot/narration... if you would excuse a terribly hackneyed phrase in regards to literature commentary, it was very atmospheric tale too... i found a suitably baffling interview with him here;
http://www.bombmagazine.com/pelevin/pelevin2.html
i just ordered a book of short stories by him too, a bit of a pelevin marathon in order then !
also just read the penguin novels by andrey kurkov , it was quite enjoyable, nicely written too but in terms of plot didn't move along too much and i wasn't sure if he was trying to do a straightforward thriller/noir-ish type thing or a character study exactly... not sure i'll return to it anytime soon but worth a read if its in the library... in comparison to pelevin its a bit "lite" i guess.
will report what i make of it all soonish.
ps whilst we are on the subject of surreal/obtuse/generally quite interesting russian lit, has anyone read Moscow Stations by Venedikt Erofeev? heard its really quite good...