03183nam 2200637 450 991079567640332120230624191442.01-64469-778-51-64469-777-710.1515/9781644697771(MiAaPQ)EBC6857725(Au-PeEL)EBL6857725(CKB)21060001200041(DE-B1597)618267(DE-B1597)9781644697771(OCoLC)1295467478(EXLCZ)992106000120004120230624d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCompanion to Victor Pelevin /edited by Sofya KhagiFirst edition.Brookline, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (242 pages)Companions to Russian Literature SeriesPrint version: Khagi, Sofya Companion to Victor Pelevin Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press,c2022 9781644697757 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 -- IndexCompanion 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.Companions to Russian literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative LiteraturebisacshHistory.Literature.Metamorphosis.Mind Control.Pelevin.Politics.Post-Soviet.Postmodernism.Russia.Simulation.Space-Time.Utopia.LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.891.725Khagi SofyaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795676403321Companion to Victor Pelevin3863583UNINA