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	Amazon.ca: Homo Zapiens: Books: Victor Pelevin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pelevin depicts Russia as an overstuffed value meal of brand names and quick scams (every car is a Mercedes, every vodka a Smirnoff).
		Pelevin satire aims mostly at American values and way of life and mind manipulation brought by mass media, advertising and globalization.
		Pelevin is a master of short stories and his previous novels were usually a collection of stories sewn by a loose plot.
	www.amazon.ca /Homo-Zapiens-Victor-Pelevin/dp/0142001813 (1823 words)

	Amazon.de: Omon Ra: English Books: Victor Pelevin,Viktor Pelevin,Andrew Bromfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pelevin portrays the Russian space program as a vast propaganda enterprise, a distraction to paper over the tawdriness and fear of everyday life.
		Nevertheless, as captured in Bromfield's superb translation, Pelevin is blessed with a distinctive mix of eloquence and nervous energy, inventive storytelling and subversive wit.
		Victor Pelevin is the favorite writer of this generation, which live in shattered world.
	www.amazon.de /Omon-Ra-Victor-Pelevin/dp/0811213641 (916 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Victor Pelevin by Leo Kropywiansky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Victor Pelevin in a Zen monastery in Kamakura, Japan.
		Using the upheaval of late-Soviet and post-Soviet society as his raw material, Victor Pelevin has spent the last decade producing works of exceptional humor, beauty, and insight: four novels, a novella, and many short stories.
		It is rather less like waking and rather more like high-quality dreaming, and despite its subjectivity, suggestive of unsayable reality: that the puddle reflects the sun, but also that the sun reflects the puddle, but also that neither of these is the case.
	www.bombsite.com /pelevin/pelevin.html (305 words)

	Observer review: The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin \| Review \| The Observer
		Pelevin, author of The Clay Machine-Gun, is a young, aggressively adventurous writer who disregards traditions and trends alike and whose hallucinatory prose tends to savage conventions of selfhood and time.
		In his introduction, Pelevin applies his definition of myth to the concept of progress: 'It is a traditional story that pretends to explain all natural and social phenomena.
		Pelevin discovers a fascinating perspective on the subject, so it's a pity that he undercuts it with showiness and a clutch of facile jokes.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1733987,00.html (655 words)

	Sycamore Review - reviewpelevin
		Pelevin’s book is the latest in Canongate’s innovative Myths Series, a project that has already included the work of Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson, and that will soon publish “retold” myths by A.S. Byatt and Chinua Achebe.
		It is appropriate, then, that Pelevin begins his contribution with a short essay that explores the eternal importance of myth and denigrates the idea of progress.
		Pelevin argues that “The road away from myth is called ‘progress,’” and then comes down in favor of myth.
	sycamorereview.com /reviewpelevin (782 words)

	Pelevin Foreign Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These days, according to Victor Pelevin in his latest and most provocative novel, Generation “P,” the answer depends—in the final analysis—on the last button you pressed on the zapper of your boob tube.
		Pelevin found one such poet (unemployed, of course) and put him to good use as his alter ego: Vavilen Tatarsky, born in 1960, who became a poet by virtue of his encounter with a volume by Boris Pasternak in 1980.
		Forty years later, with the old enmities receding into memory, it is clear that the rockets and sputnik may have won a few battles, but it was the color television with its ability to sell anything and everything to everybody that has won the cold war.
	home.comcast.net /~gfreidin/columns/Pelevin_generation2000.htm (1153 words)

	Amazon.de: The Life of Insects: English Books: Victor Pelevin,Andrew Bromfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Victor Pelevin has the sort of unbridled comedic imagination that can make most writers seem insipid by comparison.
		By turns philosophical, funny, and pathetic, Pelevin's insects lead confused lives as they try and sort out who and what they are and what their places might be in the scheme of things.
		Victor Pelevin is in a different league altogether.
	www.amazon.de /Life-Insects-Victor-Pelevin/dp/0374186251 (916 words)

	Amazon.ca: Yellow Arrow: Books: Victor Pelevin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Andrei guesses that the train may be named as it is because its lateral motion visually resembles the vertical descent of falling stars (``yellow arrows'') in the foreordained transit from incandescence to extinction.
		I hope this gives a flavor for Pelevin's writing and for the tone of "The Yellow Express." While a short work, Pelevin succeeds in creating a compelling and satirically amusing metaphorical world, a world that provides sublime insight into what it means to think and to question in a society that encourages unquestioning acceptance.
		Pelevin writes (and is translated) in a very clear manner, the prose is lucid and this is, despite applying some wonderful dream-logic to the story, highly readable and entertaining.
	www.amazon.ca /Yellow-Arrow-Victor-Pelevin/dp/0811213242 (2204 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Viktor Pelevin
		Viktor Pelevin is undoubtedly the best known fiction writer to have emerged in Russian literature since the fall of the Communism.
		Pelevin is one of the few writers who have contrived, at least for a time, to combine runaway commercial success with critical acclaim.
		Pelevin cannot, however, be accused of “writing for the West”, and his fiction presents a challenge to the Western reader unfamiliar with Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, and the reception of American popular culture in Russia, and to the translator seeking to convey these cultural references, the frequent in-jokes and appalling Anglo-Russian puns.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5589 (429 words)

	Amazon.com: Buddha's Little Finger: Books: Victor Pelevin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pelevin occasionally misfires, and reads like Buddhism lite for hip people on the go, but on the whole the weird juxtaposition of the manic and the profound conveys our tragic attraction to distraction.
		Pelevin has given his characters permission to be interesting, but he hasn't given them permission to matter.
		Pelevin's quirky high-society image of Chapaev and Anka in "Buddha's little finger" is a parody on these innumerable jokes, not the "official propaganda" of the Soviet times.
	www.amazon.com /Buddhas-Little-Finger-Victor-Pelevin/dp/0670891681 (3792 words)

	Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin, book review
		In the fiction of both Patrick O'Leary and Victor Pelevin, Occam's principle is itself an unwarranted assumption.
		Pelevin's stories often have an overlay of political satire, hearkening back to the absurd tales of Gogol, Zoschenko, Zamyatin, Bulgakov, etc., who under the tsars or under the Soviets had to disguise their social criticism.
		As is the case with the best literature, Pelevin and O'Leary don't pretend to have answers, but rather ask familiar questions in new, creative, and provocative ways.
	www.samizdat.com /isyn/pelevin2.html (1476 words)

	"Homo Zapiens" by Victor Pelevin - Salon
		In Russian author Victor Pelevin's "Homo Zapiens," "zapping" is defined as "the rapid switching of a television from one channel to another, which is used to avoid watching the advertisements." Since "instantaneous and unpredictable technomodifications switch the actual viewer to and fro," the viewer becomes "a remotely controlled television program," or, a homo zapien.
		One of Pelevin's most exciting and sometimes maddening tendencies is to flip from futuristic, satiric Soviet reality to bizarre interludes of Babylonian history, LSD manifestations and the Orwellian world of a television station in which the people may not be real.
		In Pelevin's Russia, even an emblem promising "The Path to Your Self" is just a sign for a store (where Tatarsky buys the Ouija board that hooks him up with Che).
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/02/21/pelevin/index.html (659 words)

	"Buddha's Little Finger" by Victor Pelevin - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A s astounding as it is frustrating, "Buddha's Little Finger" is Victor Pelevin's shabby, messy but often visionary take on his native Russia.
		A surreal collection of the drugged-out dreams of three patients in a Moscow mental ward in the early 1990s, the novel relies less on narrative thrust than it does on satirical vignettes that are alternately biting and toothless.
		Translator Andrew Bromfeld is astonishingly sensitive to Pelevin's shifting tones, which vary from the high formality of Socratic dialogue to the coarse colloquialism of Moscow gangster talk.
	dir.salon.com /books/review/2000/05/05/pelevin/index.html (670 words)

	Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Reviews - The Clay Machine-Gun
		Pelevin makes a joke of it all later, but try to laugh away the poetry of his description of the Undefinable River of Absolute Love (Ural, for short), or of the result of Anka’s barrage with her special machine-gun.
		Pelevin litters The Clay Machine-Gun with enough red herrings to defy any attempt to determine what is actually happening.
		But Pelevin makes use of these techniques in a way that is his own, and the result is the most affecting and tantalizing new Russian novel to have been published here in years.
	mappa.mundi.net /reviews/review_001 (1529 words)

	Powell's Books - The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide.
		Victor Pelevin, the wildly interesting contemporary Russian novelist whom the New Yorker named one of the Best European Writers Under 35, upends any conventional notions of what mythology must be with his unique take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.
		Victor Pelevin has established a reputation as one of the most interesting of the younger generation of Russian writers.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=72-1841957607-0 (750 words)

	Yale Review of Books: The Life of Insects
		The insect forms that Pelevin gives his human characters invite comparison to Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.” Kafka transformed Gregor Samsa into a dung beetle to underscore a man’s defeat by an empty and futile life.
		Pelevin morphs his characters to show that they are prey to the world.
		The settings of Pelevin’s scenes are often unclear, contributing to the book’s intentional confusion.
	www.yale.edu /yrb/summer00/review7.htm (824 words)

	erasing clouds book review: the helmet of horror
		Then open Victor Pelevin’s novel The Helmet of Horror and try to discover who’s masterminding the chat room and who its enigmatic guests may be.
		At first glance distracted readers might dismiss Pelevin’s book as a science fiction pastiche, but The Helmet of Horror is actually a multi-layered postmodernist text that engages and enthrals, mainly because readers are the main protagonists of the story as the author leaves them the task to infuse the text with a final meaning.
		Pelevin manages throughout the novel to conjure up a virtual reality that is at times scary, but it is often tinged with a dark humour.
	www.erasingclouds.com /wk1706helmet.html (357 words)

	Victor Pelevin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Victor Pelevin is a Russian SF author from Central Asia who writes about Buddhism, the space programme, Arnie, Chechen bandits, escaping chickens, Soviet war heroes and Che Guevara, but not necessarily in that order.
		Many of his fine novels can be found in translation and should appeal to Kurt Vonnegut or Philip K Dick fans.
		It is debatable whether Pelevin writes Magic Realism, or post-modernist fiction or even, potentially, chick-lit (this last is explicable only to those who have read his 'Blue Lantern and Other Stories').
	urchin.earth.li /cgi-bin/twic/wiki/view.pl?page=VictorPelevin (121 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Victor Pelevin et al - Omon Ra at Epinions.com
		After the demise of the Soviet Union, Viktor Pelevin has attained some international recognition as a satirist of the Soviet system.
		While chiding the US for risking the lives of astronauts, Pelevin imagines the Soviet space program as unable to automate voyages in space and therefore secretly had legless cosmonauts inside.
		Pelevin is not Gogol or Bulgakov, but he is an interesting conveyor of fl humor, even if what he writes makes one think about dead horses being flogged.
	www.epinions.com /content_299222994564 (611 words)

	The Helmet of Horror - Victor Pelevin
		As a variation on the Minotaur's labyrinth, Pelevin does come up with some ingenious ideas, but on the whole it's more clever than a convincing re-imaging of the myth.
		Pelevin offers enough to amuse and entertain, but it doesn't feel like he's done all that he could with the material and this specific approach.
		Russian author Victor Pelevin (Виктор Пелевин) was born in 1962.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/pelevinv/helmet.htm (1151 words)

	GLOBAL*BEAT
		But more to Pelevin's point, is the effect of global media not only on Russia, but on everyone's world view.
		Pelevin has been a leading light of the "new" Russian literature since the 1980s, with books of criticism and a series of provocative novels to his credit.
		Pelevin's project in Homo Zapiens -- like that of so many Russian novelists preceding him -- is that of sussing out the metaphysical and spiritual gist (or should i say "grist"?) of life.
	www.g21.net /gb2.html (1549 words)

	City Pages - Victor Pelevin: <I>Werewolf Problem in Central Russia</I>
		Victor Pelevin has spent his short career hunting for a metaphor.
		Pelevin's newest collection, published in Russia in 1994 and translated by Andrew Bromfield, unavoidably feels less absurd than real life, if that phrase even applies in Eastern Europe today.
		Or perhaps, Pelevin muses, this is only what Russians tell themselves in order to imagine a way beyond their essentially bleak futures.
	www.citypages.com /databank/20/950/article7210.asp (987 words)

	City Pages - Victor Pelevin <I>The Life of Insects </I> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		THERE IS A dark, brilliant moment in Omon Ra, Victor Pelevin's 1996 satire of the Soviet space program, in which Henry Kissinger, on a visit to the USSR, asks to go bear hunting.
		Of course, Pelevin's characters are insects and except when devouring their neighbors' limbs, they are charming and chummy with one another.
		Pelevin, who is one of the most idiosyncratically funny voices in Russian literature, understands the potentially limited appeal of his premise, and shapes his story accordingly.
	www.citypages.com /databank/19/899/article4445.asp (750 words)

	Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin, book review
		Imagine the Rip Van Winkle effects of living through such a time.
		Where am I? When am I? Victor Pelevin's remarkable novel Buddha's Little Finger highlights the unreality of Russia today and its similarities to Russia in the days of the revolutionary by shuttling back and forth between the 1990s and 1918-19.
		In the 1990s, the main character of this first person narrative is Pyotr Voyd (the connotation "void" is intentional), a patient in a mental hospital.
	www.samizdat.com /isyn/pelevin.html (1321 words)

	Buddha's Little Finger:Pelevin, Victor (Author):0670891681:eCampus.com
		Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today.
		In Pelevin's new novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pyotr Void, a leading St. Petersburg poet, unexpectedly finds himself in the midst of the 1919 Civil War in Russia, serving as commissar to the legendary Bolshevik commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his formidable machine-gunner sidekick, Anna.
		Shifting between time and place and spinning story upon story, Buddha's Little Finger is unlike any other novel, a work of demonic absurdism that demonstrates Pelevin's genius for metaphysical comedy.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0670891681&referrer=CJ (212 words)

	Amazon.com: Omon Ra: Books: Victor Pelevin,Andrew Bromfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pelevin wraps his criticisms on the Soviet society in a story which is at the same time hilarious, sarcastic and critical and makes you think of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.
		Reading Omon Ra as a sad satire of the USSR is like saying that Kafka's Metamorphosis is about the situation in pre-war Austrian Empire or that Borges' The Book of Sand is about the condition of intellectuals in Argentina.
		Pelevin's book is a deeply funny and deeply heart-breaking commentary about self-identity, both personal and national.
	www.amazon.com /Omon-Ra-Victor-Pelevin/dp/0811213641 (1557 words)

	Victor Pelevin - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Victor Pelevin - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Victor Pelevin is the author of A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, The Life of Insects, Omon Ra, The Yellow Arrow, and The Blue Lantern, a collection of short stories that won the Russian "Little Booker" Prize.
		He was named by The New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five and by The Observer newspaper in London as one of "twenty-one writers to watch for the 21st century."
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000037692,00.html (96 words)

	Victor Pelevin ; 4 By Pelevin, Victor R Volkman - C/C++ Treasure Chest: a Developer s Resource Kit of C/C++ Tools & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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