Companion to Victor Pelevin /

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

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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 uni...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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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

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