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Pelevin
Victor Olegovich Pelevin ( rus, Виктор Олегович Пелевин, p=ˈvʲiktər ɐˈlʲeɡəvʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈlʲevʲɪn; born 22 November 1962) is a Russian fiction writer. His novels include ''Omon Ra'' (1992), ''The Life of Insects'' (1993), ''Chapayev and Void'' (1996), and ''Generation P'' (1999). He is a laureate of multiple literary awards including the Russian Little Booker Prize (1993) and the National Bestseller Literary Prize, Russian National Bestseller (2004), the former for the short story collection ''Blue Lantern (short story collection), The Blue Lantern'' (1991). In 2011 he was nominated for the Nobel prize in Literature. His books are multi-layered Postmodern literature, postmodernist (disputed) texts fusing elements of Popular culture, pop culture and Western esotericism, esoteric philosophies while carrying conventions of the science fiction genre. Some critics relate his prose to the New sincerity literary movement. Biography Victor Olegovich Pel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Lantern (short Story Collection)
''Blue Lantern'' () is a short story collection by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991 in Russia. In 1994 it was published in English named ''Blue Lantern and Other Stories'' by New Directions Publishing. Named after the story ''"Blue Lantern"'' which was included in the collection. Plot For Victor Pelevin's short prose the main cycle-forming principle is the subjective Mysticism, mystical-philosophical orientation common to all the stories. The title of Pelevin's first collection was given by the story of the same name ''"Blue Lantern"'', where the image of the blue lantern acts as a mystical symbol of the netherworld, or rather the illusory border between the two worlds. The image of the blue lantern is found in most of the stories in the cycle. The common Philosophy, philosophical theme that unites the majority of the stories in the cycle is the understanding of death as the beginning of a new life. In the story ''"The Blue Lantern"'' the characters playfully pose serious phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generation P
''Babylon'', known in the US as ''Homo Zapiens'', is the third novel by Russian author Victor Pelevin. Published in 1999, it tells the story of Babylen Tatarsky, a Moscow ' creative' and advertising copywriter. The story deals with themes of post-Soviet Russia, consumerism, recreational drug use, and Mesopotamian mythology. A film adaption by Victor Ginzburg was released on 14 April 2011. __TOC__ List of chapters # Generation 'P' # Draft Podium # Tikhamat-2 # The Three Riddles of Ishtar – Tatarsky runs into his old classmate, Gireiev, and visits his home outside of Moscow. Gireiev and Tatarsky consume some fly agaric mushrooms. Tatarsky, hallucinating, enters an abandoned construction site, viewing it as the ziggurat he read of in chapter three. # Poor Folk # The Path to Your Self # Homo Zapiens – Using a ouija board Tatarsky summons the spirit of Che Guevara to ask him about advertising. By means of automatic writing, Guevara dictates a polemic on the nature of telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapayev And Void
''Chapayev and Pustota'' (), known in the US as ''Buddha's Little Finger'' and in the UK as ''Clay Machine Gun'', is a 1996 novel by Victor Pelevin. It follows the dreams of three Moscow mental patients in the early 1990s, with the main protagonist imagining flashbacks to the Russian Civil War, in which he was enlisted by a legendary Bolshevik commander. ''Buddha's Little Finger'' has been compared to the works of Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov; it contains many satirical vignettes, and blurs the line between dream and reality. A film adaption, ''Buddha's Little Finger'' by Tony Pemberton, was released in 2015. Plot summary The novel is written as a first-person narrative of Peter Pustota (whose surname literally means "void") and in the introduction to this book it is claimed that unlike Dmitriy Furmanov's book ''Chapayev'', this book is the truth. The book is set in two different timesafter the October Revolution and in modern Russia. In the post-revolutionary period, Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omon Ra
''Omon Ra'' () is a short novel by Russian writer Victor Pelevin, published in 1992 by the Tekst Publishing House in Moscow. It was the first novel by Pelevin, who until then was known for his short stories. Pelevin traces the absurd fate of the protagonist Omon, named by his policeman father (after OMON, Soviet and Russian special police forces, pronounced "Amon"), placing him in circumstances that are both fantastic and at the same time have recognizable everyday detail. Pelevin uses this story to illustrate the underlying absurdity of the Soviet establishment with its fixation on "heroic achievements", especially in those fields of human endeavor which could be favorably presented to the outside world—science, the military, and most significantly space exploration. The book met with a significant success in the early post-Soviet cultural landscape and continues to be reprinted. An excerpt under the name "Lunokhod" was published in 1991 in the magazine ''Knowledge is Power' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life Of Insects
''The Life of Insects '' () is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 1993. The novel consists of 15 chapters. Plot The novel is set in the early 1990s in the Crimea. All the characters in the novel are both human (racketeers, drug addicts, mystics, prostitutes) and insects. The characters chosen by the author are typical representatives of the society of the early 1990s. But this dating does not play a role in itself because the types chosen are quite universal and suitable for all periods. The book has deep connotations with the teachings of Carlos Castaneda, Marcus Aurelius and Buddhism. The book consists of fifteen inter-related stories with characters and incidents recurring, albeit in different contexts and from different viewpoints. The heroes of these short stories appear in the first pages as ordinary beings who could be human. Then Pelevine describes details that shows them as insects. The first publication of the novel was in the magazine Znamya ''Znam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Bestseller Literary Prize
The National Bestseller Literary Prize (Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...: Национальный бестселлер)(also known as Natsbest or Natsionalnyi Bestseller) has been awarded to the best Russian Language novel since 2001. A jury selects 5-6 novels each year, and a smaller jury of experts selects the winner. The winner receives an award of 250,000 rubles. The award was not given in 2022, and has not been given since. Winners References Literary awards Awards established in 2001 Russian literary awards {{Lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Power Engineering Institute
National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute" (MPEI; ) is a public university based in Moscow, Russia. It offers training in the fields of Power Engineering, Electric Engineering, Radio Engineering, Electronics, Information Technologies and Management. History MPEI was founded in 1930. In 2011 it obtained the status of National Research University. Therefore, the new official name is National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute. About MPEI At MPEI there are 12 Institutes, 65 departments, 176 scientific laboratories, research construction bureau and test factory, educational TPP, Solar Power Plant, technical library, stadium "Energia", palace of culture and a swimming pool. Among the teaching staff there are 7 Academicians of RAS, 262 Science Doctors, 715 Philosophy Doctors. The Study Campus is in Moscow Lefortovo district. The dormitories for students, health center, canteens, cafes are at the Campus at the Energeticheskaya, Lapina, 1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Gorky Literary Institute
The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute () is an institution of higher education in Moscow, Russia. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. History The institute was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, a writer, founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. It received its current name at Gorky's death in 1936. The institute has been at the same location, not far from Pushkin Square, for more than seventy years, in a complex of historic buildings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The main building at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard was the birthplace of Alexander Herzen and frequented by well-known writers of the 19th century, including Nikolai Gogol, Vissarion Belinsky, Pyotr Chaadayev, Aleksey Khomyakov, and Yevgeny Baratynsky. In the 1920s it housed various writers' organizations and a literary museum. It also provided accommodations for writers, including Andrei Platonov, Vsevolod Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Little Booker Prize
The Russian Little Booker Prize (Малая Букеровская премия or Малый Букер) was an annual prize awarded in 1992-2001 for a nominated Literary genre, genre of writing. It was established in 1992 as part of the Russian Booker Prize. In 2000 it separated from the Russian Booker and became independent. The prize was founded by Francis Greene (son of Graham Greene), whose sponsorship was anonymous until 2000. The nominations differed every year, to complement the Russian Booker which is awarded for novels only. The mission of the Little Booker was to identify and encourage the most interesting and modern tendencies in Russia's literary life. Up until 2000 Russian Little Booker was awarded at the Russian Booker prize ceremonies. In 2001 it was awarded at the Non-Fiction Book Fair in Moscow. The prize award was 4000 Pound sterling, GBP. The Public Board The Public Board of the Little Booker included: 1. Nikolai Aleksandrov ("Ekho Moskvy" radio station) 2. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Postmodernism
Russian postmodernism refers to the cultural, artistic, and philosophical condition in Russia since the downfall of the Soviet Union and dialectical materialism. With respect to statements about post-Soviet philosophy or sociology, the term is primarily used by non-Russians to describe the state of economic and political uncertainty they observe since the fall of communism and the way this uncertainty affects Russian identity. 'Postmodernism' is, however, a term often used by Russian critics to describe contemporary Russian art and literature. pp. 693–94. Artistic and literary origins In art, postmodernism entered the Soviet Union in the 1950s after the end of the Stalinist move toward liberalization with the advent of the Russian conceptualist movement. Beginning as an underground political-artistic move against the use of Socialist realism as a method of social control and becoming a full-fledged movement with the Moscow Conceptualists, Russian conceptualism used the sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauman MSTU
The Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU; ), sometimes colloquially referred as the ''Bauman School'' or ''Baumanka'' (), is a public technical university (polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia. Bauman University offers B.S., M.S & PhD degrees in various engineering fields and applied sciences. In 2023, ''US News & World Report'' ranked it #1,758 in the world. History Bauman University is the second oldest educational institution in Russia after Lomonosov Moscow State University (1755). In 1763, the Russian Empress Catherine II founded the Educational Imperial House. On October 5, 1826, the dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna issued a decree to establish "''great workshops for different crafts with bedrooms, a dining room, etc.''" as a part of the Moscow Foundling Home in the German Quarter. All craft pupils were moved from an Orphanage there. On July 1, 1830, Emperor Nicholas I approved the Statute of Moscow Craft School. Russia's developing industry needed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chertanovo
Chertanovo () is a housing area in the Southern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. The name derives from Chertanovo village first mentioned in 1665. The territory became part of Moscow in 1960. The area is 21,3 km2 and has a population of 364,693 (Russian Census (2010), census of 2010). There are three Administrative divisions of Moscow, administrative districts of Moscow (raions), five Moscow Metro, metro stations, three railway stations, 25 streets and five parks. History Source: There are 10 groups of burial mounds of Vyatichi and one of the medieval Slavs, Slavic tribes, dated 12 - 13th century. There are many version of origin of the name Chertanovo. According to Vladimir Toporov, the name of Chertanovo village derives from name Chertanovka river and its name derives from medieval Finno-Ugric languages. Chertanovo village was located on the territory of modern Northern Chertanovo district near Chertanovo railway platform. Chertanovo village was mentioned for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
