Victor Olegovich Pelevin ( rus, Виктор Олегович Пелевин, p=ˈvʲiktər ɐˈlʲeɡəvʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈlʲevʲɪn; born 22 November 1962) is a Russian

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writer. His novels include ''

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'' (1992), '' The Life of Insects'' (1993), '' Chapayev and Void'' (1996), and '' Generation P'' (1999). He is a laureate of multiple literary awards including the

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(1993) and the Russian National Bestseller (2004), the former for the short story collection '' The Blue Lantern'' (1991). In 2011 he was nominated for the Nobel prize in Literature. His books are multi-layered

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(disputed) texts fusing elements of

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and esoteric philosophies while carrying conventions of the

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genre. Some critics relate his prose to the New sincerity literary movement.

Biography

Victor Olegovich Pelevin was born in Moscow on 22 November 1962 to Zinaida Semenovna Efremova, an English teacher, and Oleg Anatolyevich Pelevin, a teacher at the military department of Bauman University. He lived on

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in Moscow, later moving to

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. In 1979, Pelevin graduated from an elite high school with a special English program located on Stanislavskogo Street in the centre of Moscow, now Kaptsov Gymnasium #1520. He then attended the

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(MPEI) graduating with a degree in electromechanical engineering in 1985. In April of that year, MPEI Department of Electrical Transport hired him as engineer. Pelevin served in the

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. From 1987 to 1989, Pelevin attended the MPEI graduate school. Pelevin travels to Asia often and has been to Nepal, South Korea, China and Japan. While he does not call himself a

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, he is engaged in Buddhist practices. Pelevin has repeatedly said that despite the fact that his characters use drugs, he is not an addict even though he experimented with mind-expanding substances in his youth. Pelevin is not married. Pelevin has no current or past public social media accounts (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte) In December 2018, the media reported that the writer Victor Pelevin registered in the register of individual entrepreneurs in the territorial office of the

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in Moscow.

Literary career

In 1989, Pelevin attended Mikhail Lobanov's creative writing seminar at

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. While studying at the Institute, Pelevin met the young novelist Albert Egazarov and the poet Victor Kulle, later a literary critic. Pelevin was expelled from the Institute in 1991. Egazarov and Kulle went on to found a publishing house, first called ''The Day'', then ''The Raven'' and ''Myth'', for which Pelevin has edited three volumes of

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's work. From 1989 to 1990, Pelevin worked as a staff reporter for the magazine ''Face to Face''. In 1989, he also began to work in the journal ''Nauka i Religiya'' (Science and Religion), where he edited a series of articles on eastern

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. In 1989, ''Nauka i Religiya'' published Pelevin's first short story "''The Sorcerer Ignat and People''". In 1991, Pelevin published his first collection of stories '' The Blue Lantern''. Two years later, it received the

. In 1994, it received InterPressCon and the Bronze Snail awards. In March 1992, Pelevin published his first novel ''

'' in the literary journal ''

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''. The novel attracted the attention of literary critics and was nominated for the Booker Prize. In April 1993, the same journal published Pelevin's next novel ''The Life of Insects''. In 1993, Pelevin published an essay "John Fowles and the tragedy of Russian liberalism" in

Nezavisimaya Gazeta ( rus, Независимая газета, p=nʲɪzɐˈvʲisʲɪməjə ɡɐˈzʲetə, t=Independent Newspaper) is a Russian daily newspaper. History and profile Soviet Union was established by the Moscow Soviet in August 1990. Its first ed ...

. The essay was the writer's answer to some negative critics' reactions to his work. In the same year, Pelevin was admitted to the Russian Union of Journalists. In 1996, Pelevin participated in the

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residency at the University of Iowa. That same year, Znamya published Pelevin's novel ''Chapayev and Void''. Critics called it "the first

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novel in Russian". The writer himself called it "the first novel which takes place in an absolute vacuum". In 1997, the novel won for science fiction, and in 2001 it was shortlisted for the

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. In 1999, Pelevin's novel ''Generation P'' was published. Over 3.5 million copies have been sold worldwide. The book received a number of awards including Germany's Richard Schoenfeld Prize. In 2003, Pelevin published the novel ''The Dialectics of Transition Period from Out of Nowhere to Nowhere'' or ''DTP (NN)'', receiving the

Apollon Grigoryev Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev ( rus, Аполло́н Алекса́ндрович Григо́рьев, p=ɐpɐˈlon ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪf, a=Apollon Alyeksandrovich Grigor'yev.ru.vorb.oga; 20 July 1822 – 7 Octobe ...

Prize in 2003 and the National Bestseller award in 2004. DTP (NN) was also shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize in 2003. In 2006,

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published Pelevin's novel '' Empire V''. The novel was shortlisted for the Russian Big Book award. The text of ''Empire V'' appeared on the Internet even before the publication of the novel. Representatives of Eksmo claimed that it was a result of a theft, but some speculated that it was a marketing ploy. In October 2009, the novel '' t'' was published. The author received the third award of the fifth season of the Big Book award (2009–2010) and won the reader choice vote. In December 2011, Eksmo released Pelevin's novel ''

S.N.U.F.F. ''S.N.U.F.F.'' is a science fiction novel by Russian writer Victor Pelevin published in 2011. Plot The plot's setting is a post-apocalyptic world where the majority of people live either in a poor, technologically backwards Urkaina (likely -- ...

'' which received the E-book award for "Prose of the Year" in February 2012. Literary critics have noted Pelevin's

and absurdist styles, which incorporate Buddhist motifs, esoteric traditions, and satirical science fiction. Pelevin's books have been translated into many languages including Japanese and Chinese. In 2009, the ''French magazine'' chose Pelevin as one of the 1,000 most significant people in contemporary culture. A 2009 OpenSpace.ru survey voted Pelevin as the most influential intellectual in Russia. Pelevin is known for not being a part of the literary crowd, rarely appearing in public or giving interviews and preferring to communicate on the internet. When he gives interviews, he talks more about the nature of his mind rather than his writings. This has given grounds for various rumours. For instance, it has been suggested that the writer does not exist and Pelevin is actually a code name for a group of authors or even a computer. In May 2011, it was reported that Pelevin would personally attend the award ceremony SuperNatsBest, which would have been the writer's first appearance in public. However, he did not come. Pelevin has permitted all of his texts in Russian predating 2009 (except '' P5: Farewell songs of the political pygmies of Pindostan'') to be published on the Internet for non-commercial use. Some novels are also available as audio files in Russian. In December 2010, he wrote a collection of novels and short stories "'' Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady''", which was in the long list of the Russian Literary Award "Big Book" (season 2010/11). In March 2013, Pelevin's eleventh novel "'' Batman Apollo''" was released, which is a sequel to "'' Empire V''". Then came the novels " ''Love for Three Zuckerbrins''" (2014), " ''The Caretaker''" (2015), "'' Methuselah's Lamp, or The Last Battle of the Chekists and Masons''" (2016). In 2017, the novel "'' iPhuck 10''" was published, which won the Andrew White Prize. In 2018, the novel "'' Secret Views of Mount Fuji''" was released. "'' The Art of Light Touches"'' was released in August 2019. In August 2020, the novel "'' The Invincible Sun''" was published. For the past nine years, the author has been releasing one book a year, it can be a novel or a collection of stories united by a common theme. In the fall of 2021 the book " ''Transhumanism Inc''." was published, which is a collection of stories united by the theme of the concept of

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. In September 2022, the novel “KGBT+” was published, which is a sequel to the previous novel “Transhumanism Inc.”. In November 2022, the documentary film ''Pelevin'' directed by Rodion Chepel was released. The author studied archives and early works of Pelevin, interviewed the writer's acquaintances, his childhood friends, colleagues and researchers of the writer's work. In 2023, the novel “Journey to Eleusin” was published. It also became the sequel to two previous novels, “KGBT+” and “Transhumanism Inc.”. In September 2024, it was revealed that Victor Pelevin will release a new novel "Krut'". Sales of the new book started on October 3, 2024.

Literary style

Pelevin's prose, creating a mythologized and multi-layered picture of reality, is built on the interweaving of the fantastic and the real, the historical and the fictional. In the spirit of postmodernism, it abounds in hidden quotations, allusions, the game semantic clichés, and

irony Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what, on the surface, appears to be the case with what is actually or expected to be the case. Originally a rhetorical device and literary technique, in modernity, modern times irony has a ...

. Buddhist symbolism neighbours in it with occultism, European philosophy with mysticism, didacticism with parody, and active presence of realities of modern culture with an appeal to archaic consciousness. But, he employs postmodernist devices for

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ethos. Pelevin's works are characterized by the mixing of elements of different genres —

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and

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and

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and

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. In a conversation with ''

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'', Pelevin named Russian author

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( ; rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel ''The M ...

's ''

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'' as an early influence on his reading, saying, "The effect of this book was really fantastic. ..This book was totally out of the Soviet world." Pelevin avoids, however, listing authors who have specifically influenced his writing, for he believes that "the only real Russian literary tradition is to write good books in a way nobody did before."

Selected bibliography

Novels

*''

'' / ''Омон Ра'' (1992) *'' The Life of Insects'' / ''Жизнь насекомых'' (1993) *''

Buddha's Little Finger ''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 protagoni ...

'' (aka ''Clay Machine-Gun'') / ''Чапаев и Пустота'' ( Chapayev and Void) (1996) *'' Generation "P"'' (aka ''Babylon'', ''Homo Zapiens'') / ''Generation "П"'' (1999) *''

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'' (as part of the book ''DTP(NN) - The Dialectics of the Transition Period (from Nowhere to No Place)'' / ''ДПП(NN) - Диалектика Переходного Периода (из Ниоткуда в Никуда)'') / ''Числа'' (2004) * '' The Sacred Book of the Werewolf'' / ''Священная Книга Оборотня'' (2004) * '' The Helmet of Horror'' / ''Шлем ужаса'' (2005) * '' Empire V'' / ''Ампир В'' (2006) * '' t'' (2009) * ''

'' (2011) * '' Batman Apollo'' (2013) * ''

Love for three Zuckerbrins ''Love for three Zuckerbrins'' () is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2014. In the title of the novel there is an obvious allusion to the fiaba "The Love for Three Oranges" a fairy-tale play written by Carlo Gozzi in 1760. The term ...

'' / ''Любовь к трём Цукербринам'' (2014) * '' The Caretaker'' / ''Смотритель'' (2015) * '' Methuselah's Lamp, or The Last Battle of the Chekists and Masons'' / ''Лампа Мафусаила, или Крайняя битва чекистов с масонами'' (2016) * '' iPhuck 10'' (2017) * '' Secret Views of Mount Fuji'' / ''Тайные виды на гору Фудзи'' (2018) * '' The Art of Light Touches'' / ''Искусство лёгких касаний'' (2019) * ''Sol Invictus'' (Unconquered Sun) / '' Непобедимое солнце'' (2020) * '' Transhumanism Inc.'' (2021) * '' KGBT+'' (2022) * ''Journey to Eleusis'' / ''Путешествие в Элевсин'' (2023) * Krut' / Круть (2024)

Short story collection

* ''Blue Lantern and Other Stories'' / ''Синий фонарь'' (1991) *''4 by Pelevin'' (2001) * '' P5: Farewell songs of the political pygmies of Pindostan'' / ''П5: прощальные песни политических пигмеев Пиндостана'' (2008) * '' Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady'' / ''Ананасная вода для прекрасной дамы'' (2010)

Short stories

* '' The Sorcerer Ignat and People'' / ''Колдун Игнат и люди'' (1989) * '' The Water Tower'' / ''Водонапорная башня '' (1990) * ''

Hermit and Six-Toes ''Hermit and Six Toes'' () is a novella by Victor Pelevin, published in 1990 in Russia and translated by Andrew Bromfield in 1996. Plot The main characters of the story are two broiler chickens named Hermit and Six-Toes, who are raised for sl ...

'' / ''Затворник и Шестипалый'' (1990) * '' The Reconstructor'' / ''Реконструктор'' (1990) * '' Weapon of Retaliation'' / ''Оружие возмездия'' (1990) * ''

The Life and Adventure of Shed Number XII ''The Life and Adventure of Shed Number XII'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot In the story, the author reveals the anthropomorphic essence of objects that can think and suffer. The protagonist, shed number XII, u ...

'' / ''Жизнь и приключения сарая Номер XII'' (1991) * ''

A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991 in Russian. In 1998, New Directions Publishing published a short story collection, 'A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories'. ...

'' / ''Проблема верволка в средней полосе'' (1991) * '' Prince of Central Planning'' / ''Принц Госплана'' (1991) * ''

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'' / ''Спи'' (1991) * ''

News from Nepal ''News from Nepal'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot In the story The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Pelevin translates it into the Soviet language. The heroes of the story are dead, and they are read an instruction bo ...

'' / ''Вести из Непала'' (1991) * '' Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream'' / ''Девятый сон Веры Павловны'' (1991) * '' Blue Lantern'' / ''Синий фонарь'' (1991) * '' Tai Shou Chuan USSR'' / ''СССР Тайшоу Чжуань. Китайская народная сказка'' (1991) * ''

Mardongi ''Mardongi'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot The story is a philosophical-satirical pseudo-review by Victor Pelevin. It is a parody of religious studies, a satire on religious-philosophical movements and sects, a ...

'' / ''Мардонги'' (1991) * '' Bulldozer Driver's Day'' / ''День бульдозериста'' (1991) * ''

The Ontology of Childhood ''The Ontology of Childhood'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot In the story the author undertakes an artistic study of the process of formation of the child, starting from the moment of awareness of himself as a ...

'' / ''Онтология детства'' (1991) * ''

Built-in Reminder ''Built-in Reminder'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. The story was the title of a collection of stories of the same name published in 2002. Plot The story is a monologue and reflection of a painter of modern art. ...

'' / ''Встроенный напоминатель'' (1991) * ''

Mid-Game ''Mid-Game'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot In the story, Pelevin's theme of the existence and destruction of borders and the emergence of alternative, including absurd, reality is clearly evident. The stor ...

'' / ''Миттельшпиль'' (1991) * '' The Yellow Arrow'' / ''Желтая стрела'' (1993) * ''

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'' / ''Хрустальный мир'' (1991) * '' Uhryab'' / ''Ухряб'' (1991) * ''

Music from the Pillar ''Music from the Pillar'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot "Music from the Pillar" together with the stories "'' The Reconstructor''", "'' Weapon of Retaliation''" and "'' Kreger’s Revelation''" constitute a si ...

'' / ''Музыка со столба'' (1991) * '' Kreger’s Revelation '' / ''Откровение Крегера'' (1991) * '' Nika'' / ''Ника'' (1992) * '' The Tambourine of the Upper World '' / ''Бубен Верхнего мира'' (1993) * '' The Tambourine of the Lower World'' / ''Бубен Нижнего мира '' (1993) * ''

Sigmund in a Cafe ''Sigmund in a Cafe'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1993. Plot The story belongs to the early stage of the writer's work, and applies a characteristic author's trick: playing with the reader's expectations and unpredicta ...

'' / ''Зигмунд в кафе'' (1993) * ''

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'' / ''Происхождение видов'' (1993) * ''

Ivan Kublakhanov Ivan Kublakhanov () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1994. Plot The story is a postmodern philosophical treatise written in the traditions of Buddhism and Vedanism. Having a traditional Russian name Ivan, the last name of t ...

'' / ''Иван Кублаханов'' (1994) * '' The Tarzan Swing'' / ''Тарзанка'' (1994) * ''

Xmas Cyberpunk, or Christmas Night-117.DIR ''Xmas Cyberpunk, or Christmas Night-117.DIR'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1996. Plot Cyberpunk literature, which emerged as a branch of science fiction, describes the symbiosis of man and machine, with the machine (an ...

'' / ''Святочный киберпанк, или Рождественская Ночь-117.DIR'' (1996) * '' The Greek Version'' / ''Греческий вариант'' (1997) * '' A Concise History of Paintball in Moscow'' / ''Краткая история пэйнтбола в Москве'' (1997) * '' The Low Tundra'' / ''Нижняя тундра'' (1999) * '' Time Out'' / ''Тайм-аут, или Вечерняя Москва'' (2001) * '' Macedonian Criticism of French Thought'' / ''Македонская критика французской мысли'' (2003) * ''

Wind Search Record ''Wind Search Record'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 2003. Plot Victor Pelevin's works are characterized by numerous implicit references to various aspects of Chinese literature and culture. There are also texts explicitly ...

'' / ''Запись о поиске ветра'' (2003) * ''

The Guest at the Fest of Bon ''The Guest at the Fest of Bon'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 2003. Plot Pelevin's story is based on the theses of the samurai Jete Yamamoto (" Hagakure"), which express his view of life as an instant, saying that man is ...

'' / ''Гость на празднике Бон'' (2003) * '' One Vogue'' / ''Один вог'' (2003) * '' Who by fire'' / ''Who by fire'' (2005)

Essays

* '' Zombification'' / ''Зомбификация'' (1990) * '' Fortune telling with Runes'' / ''Гадание на рунах'' (1990) * '' GKChP as the Tetragrammaton'' / ''ГКЧП как Тетраграмматон'' (1993) * '' John Fowles and the Tragedy of Russian Liberalism'' / ''Джон Фаулз и трагедия русского либерализма'' (1993) * ''

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'' / ''Икстлан — Петушки'' (1993) * '' The Names of Oligarchs on the Map of the Homeland'' / ''Имена олигархов на карте Родины'' (1998) * '' The Warrior's Last Joke'' / ''Последняя шутка воина'' (1998)

References

Sources printed

* * ''Mørch, Audun J.''.
Reality as Myth: Pelevin's Čapaev i Pustota
, in: ''Scando-Slavica''. Vol. 51. No.1. (2005): 61–79. * ''Orthofer, M. A.''. The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction. Columbia University Press, 2016. . . * ''Yurchak, Alexei''. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. — Princeton University Press, 2013. . .

External links

New Directions
New Directions publishes English translations of Victor Pelevin's work including ''Omon Ra'', ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia'', ''Yellow Arrow'', and ''The Blue Lantern and Other Stories''.
Interview, spring 2002.
In English, from BOMB magazine.
Shlem - New Book of Victor Pelevin (Interactive)2002 ''BOMB Magazine'' interview of Victor Pelevin by Leo Kropywiansky

Empire V on Google books

Unofficial fan site
In Russian, since 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pelevin, Victor 1962 births Living people Writers from Moscow Russian male novelists Magic realism writers Postmodern writers Russian science fiction writers Russian satirists Russian satirical novelists Cyberpunk writers International Writing Program alumni 20th-century Russian male writers Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni Russian counterculture of the 1990s Moscow Power Engineering Institute alumni