Companion to Victor Pelevin / edited by Sofya Khagi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khagi, Sofya, editor.

Series:

Companions to Russian literature.

Companions to Russian Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pelevin, Viktor--Criticism and interpretation.

Pelevin, Viktor.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2022]

Summary:

Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin's oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Post-Soviet

1. The Early Years: Post-Soviet with a Capital “S”

Part Two: Space, Time, History

2. Space-Time Poetics in Chapaev and the Void

3. Parody of Past and Present in Chapaev and the Void

4. Masking the Void, Voiding the Mask: Viktor Pelevin and the Performance of History

Part Three: Simulation and Mind Control

5. “The Battle for Your Mind”: Transformation of Western Social Theory in Generation ‘П’

6. Totalitarian Literature in Generation ‘П’

Part Four: Metamorphosis and Utopia

7. Transformative Reading for Tailless Monkeys: Metamorphoses in The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

8. The Mythic and the Utopian: Visions of the Future through the Lens of Victor Pelevin’s S.N.U.F.F. and Love for Three Zuckerbrins

Appendix

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Khagi, Sofya Companion to Victor Pelevin

ISBN:

1-64469-778-5

1-64469-777-7

OCLC:

1295467478