The life of insects. Chapayev and the Void. Generation "P"
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The life of insects. Chapayev and the Void. Generation "P"
19.99 €
Victor Pelevin is one of the most famous contemporary writers whose novels of the 1990s, collected in this volume, have largely influenced the development of Russian literature. Reality intertwined with phantasmagoria, the eccentricity of the plot, and the combination of heterogeneous techniques have been the key to the enduring success of Pelevin's works with readers. Pelevin's works with readers. The life of insects is a special phantasmagoric world in which the most ordinary phenomena of post-Soviet reality appear as a reflection of eternal magical rituals. A world in which people-mosquitoes, people-moths and people-scarabs try to know themselves, but, revealing lies, do not approach the truth, and, multiplying lies, do not move away from the truth. The hero of the novel "Chapaev and Void" - imagined himself a poet-decadent patient of a psychiatric hospital Peter Void. He lives in two different eras: in 1919 he meets Chapaev, serves in his division commissar, falls in love with Anka and even almost dies in battle, and in another reality meets Kawabata, Schwarzenegger and "just Mary" ... Over the years since the release of "Generation "P", changed customers and producers of advertising, computer reality has become more important than television. But the cult status of the novel has not changed: the parable beginning in it was stronger than the immediate. Young people still recognize themselves in Vavilen Tatarsky, and spiritistic séances with Commander Che reveal to them the truth about the nature of man and society.
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