Victor Pelevin: Blue Lantern (short stories)

We have received multiple suggestions to read something by Victor Pelevin, so we will meet online to discuss the short story collection "Blue Lantern":

"For Victor Pelevin's short prose the main cycle-forming principle is the subjective mystical-philosophical orientation common to all the stories. The title of Pelevin's first collection was given by the story of the same name "Blue Lantern", where the image of the blue lantern acts as a symbol of the netherworld, or rather the illusory border between the two worlds. The image of the blue lantern is found in most of the stories in the cycle.

Victor Pelevin became very well known in Russia and then outside of Russia in the 90s for satirical and absurdist post-modern prose. Here is some background on Pelevin.