Victor Pelevin

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Post-Soviet and Global

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvTatiana Filimonova,Sofya Khagi,Boris Noordenbos

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Victor Pelevin is one of the most widely read and debated writers to emerge from the post-Soviet world, yet his work speaks far beyond it. This volume offers the first in-depth account of Pelevin as a simultaneously post-Soviet and global author, demonstrating how his fiction mediates between local experience and global, even cosmic systems of power, control, and belief. Moving beyond readings that cast him either as a postmodernist chronicler of the post-Soviet condition or fully assimilate him into familiar Western paradigms, the contributors demonstrate how his writing constantly navigates between these frameworks. Pelevin’s novels and stories explore a world shaped by multinational capitalism, digital networks of communication, conspiracy thinking, and metaphysical doubt, while remaining firmly rooted in the experience of the post-Soviet transformation. Bringing together international scholars, the volume offers complementary and critical perspectives on Pelevin’s literary qualities, evolving concerns, and the shifting politics of his prose, integrating works that have never been translated. Taken together, the contributions to this volume present Pelevin as a writer who can be read as iconoclastic, polemical, conformist, or self-reflexive. Yet above all, Pelevin emerges as a writer who is uniquely attuned to the contemporary zeitgeist.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-29
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt1 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487560119

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AcknowledgmentsPart I: Philosophy, Metaphysics, and MythIntroduction: Pelevin and Global CultureTatiana Filimonova, Sofya Khagi, and Boris NoordenbosChapter 1: Inner and Outer Spaces: A Claustrophobic Reading of Viktor Pelevin’s Omon RaSibelan ForresterChapter 2: Sacrifice and the Economy of Violence in Pelevin’s FictionSofya KhagiChapter 3: Reconfiguring the Russian Imperial Legacy: Victor Pelevin’s Iakinf as a Neo-Gothic StoryAlexandra SmithChapter 4: Nihilism and Gnosticism in Victor Pelevin’s Transhumanism, Inc.Lina SteinerChapter 5: Outgrowing Hamlet: Cynical Humanism in Victor Pelevin’s Empire VMeghan VicksPart II: Conspiracy and the Politics of CritiqueChapter 6: The Path of Post-paranoia in Victor Pelevin’s Recent WorkKeith A. LiversChapter 7: The Conspiratorial Sublime: Mapping Power Trans-historically in Victor Pelevin’s Operation “Burning Bush” (2010) and Methuselah’s Lamp (2016)Boris NoordenbosChapter 8: Victor Pelevin and the NoosphereTatiana FilimonovaChapter 9: History, Sovereignty, and Political Legitimacy in Victor Pelevin’s Caretaker (2015) and Undefeatable Sun (2020)Maya VinokourChapter 10: Viktor Pelevin’s Joyless TrickstersMark LipovetskyChapter 11: Disavowal in Pelevin’s Recent ReceptionLisa Ryoko Wakamiya Index

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