Companion to Victor Pelevin / / ed. by Sofya Khagi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Fort, Christopher,; Khagi, Sofya,; Mahoney, Grace,; Martin, Michael,; McConnell, Alexander,; Ogden, Dylan,; Trotman, Theodore,; Vicks, Meghan,
• HerausgeberIn: Khagi, Sofya,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Companions to Russian Literature
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

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. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and students, including how best to teach Pelevin to university-level students, and which critical debates invite further investigation. 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. Examining all of Pelevin’s major works and all Peleviniana currently available in English, the Companion aims to prompt further inquiry into this author’s intellectually stimulating and socially prescient work.

Table of 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