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	Some Info about Viktor Pelevin
		At 32, Pelevin is at the forefront of a new generation of Russian writers emerging in response to the ever-changing conditions of life in the former Soviet Union.
		Pelevin leaves us an impression of real humanity and purity of spirit which transcends the Soviet setting and has universal significance, and which endures beyond the novel's dramatic and desolate conclusion.
		However, Pelevin ends on a still small note of optimism, as the train's movement is suddenly suspended to let the hero descend and hear for the first time the modest but supremely beautiful sounds of nature.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Viktor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Adler, Viktor ADLER, VIKTOR [Adler, Viktor], 1852-1918, Austrian socialist politician and journalist, founder and leader of the Austrian Social Democratic party.
		He was a deputy from 1901 and became (1907), with Viktor Adler, co-leader of the socialist group in parliament.
		Double Dutch; `We couldn't find anything to wear' is how Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren justify the launch of their first menswear collection.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Viktor (715 words)

	Victor Pelevin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pelevin's first story was published in 1989, and for the next 3 years his short stories appeared in various magazines and compilations, making him a prominent figure among the SF "in" crowd and garnering several awards.
		In 1992 a book of Pelevin's collected stories The Blue Lantern received the first annual Russian Booker Prize for fiction, and next year his first novel, Omon Ra--a wonderfully surreal satire of the nature of reality in the Soviet state--propelled him from relative obscurity to large print runs and fame practically overnight.
		Pelevin's prose is usually devoid of dialog between the author and the reader, whether through plot, character development, literary form or narrative language, which corresponds to his philosophy (both stated and unstated) that, for the most part, it is the reader who infuses the text with meaning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viktor_Pelevin (505 words)

	KUZNET \| Sergey Kouznetsov's Interview with Viktor Pelevin (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vo vremja ucheby v Literaturnom Institute, Viktor Pelevin odnazhdy posporil, chto sdast vsju sessiju bez podgotovki i, bolee togo, na kazhdom ekzamene budet govorit' tol'ko ob Arkadii Gajdare.
		V konce vos'midesjatykh Viktor Pelevin stal izvesten kak fantast: ego rasskazy pojavljalis' v sbornikakh i v zhurnale "Khimija i Zhizn'", gde v to vremja byl luchshij razdel fantastiki.
		Pelevin vsegda vysmeival blagogovejnoe otnoshenie k klassicheskoj literature, kogda za schet utverzhdenija odnoznachnosti myslej i chuvstv pisatelej proshlogo oni prevracshajutsja v "dukhovnye trupy", a samo kul'turnoe prostranstvo - v Bratskuju Mogilu.
	www.sharat.co.il.cob-web.org:8888 /krok/tr/pelevin.htm (1362 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Babylon: Books: Viktor Pelevin,Andrew Bromfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Written with cruel wit concealing an austere compassion, it is Pelevin's peculiar talent to capture the sheer absurdity of the experience of a nation which, in the space of a century, has undergone two convulsive revolutions, won and lost a global empire, conquered space and yet been defeated by its own habits of dependency.
		However, Pelevin's style is his own, and Babylon oscillates wildly between satiric depiction of the shallow world of advertising (often the strongest parts of the novel), and theoretical expositions on the nature of greed and human stupidity in a capitalist society.
		Not that Pelevin should be seen as a nostalgic socialist: he ridicules the rigidity and lack of free thought under party rule as viciously as he lashes out against the current regime.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Babylon-Viktor-Pelevin/dp/0571205569 (1699 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Clay Machine Gun: Books: Viktor Pelevin,Andrew Bromfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin
		Pelevin's is the most daring mind you are likely to encounter in quite a while; someone who manages to unite the disparate strands of the computer age, mysticism, humour...oh and magic mushrooms though you may want to file them under mysticism.
		Pelevin achieves the near-impossible by generating extremely philosophical dialogue in a way that doesn't sound at all unnatural or forced.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Clay-Machine-Gun-Viktor-Pelevin/dp/0571201261 (1035 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur: Books: Victor Pelevin (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pelevin weaves a fascinating tale, built on the myth of Theseus, the Minotaur and the labyrinth.
		They, on the other hand, are active (more or less), working on finding out what their situation is, how to get out of their labyrinth and who their captor is. They are continuously being fed information, but cannot be sure what to trust...
		Pelevin plays with language and form and manages to give each character its unique voice, while at the same time asking the Big Questions about our existence and the essence of Being and Truth.
	www.amazon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Helmet-Horror-Myth-Theseus-Minotaur/dp/1841957054 (652 words)

	Babylon - Viktor Pelevin - NALINKA From Web To Life (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Viktor Pelevin è nato a Mosca nel 1962.
		E così Viktor Pelevin sfugge inaspettatamente alla nostra censura interna (forse caduta vittima di un WOW-impulso dislocatorio, e per sapere cosa sia, in tutta onestà, non hai alternativa all'acquisto del libro!).
		Viktor Pelevin ha due meriti eccezionali: per prima cosa è uno scrittore dotato di un talento così straordinario da risultare a volte disarmante.
	www.nalinka.com.cob-web.org:8888 /it/fromwebtolife/viktorpelevin1.asp (375 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		It is somewhat disturbing to think that Western readers may now regard Viktor Pelevin as Russia's most representative writer.
		For two reasons, it is disturbing to think that Western readers may regard Pelevin as Russia's most representative writer.
		First, Pelevin does not readily distinguish between things as they are and his arcane elaborations.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/11/18/106.html (639 words)

	Degradation of the Word or the Adventures of an Intelligent in Viktor Pelevin's Generation II Canadian Slavonic Papers ...
		I suggest that the intelligentsia, the milieu in which major Russian cultural myths originated and developed, is itself best understood in terms of cultural myth-a cultural construct reflecting the group's self-image.
		In Pelevin's novel, the career of a poet turned advertising writer-copywriter-parallels the post-perestroika cultural crisis in Russia and the degradation of the Word, which, in turn, symbolizes the demise of the intelligentsia.
		Numerous studies begin and end with the acknowledgment that it is nearly impossible to define the intelligentsia in terms of its class structure or its ideologies.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200409/ai_n11849876 (778 words)

	Nicola Gaiarin: Babylon di Viktor Pelevin (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Solo che in Pelevin la ricerca dell’orrore ad ogni costo lascia il posto alla rete delle immagini e degli script pubblicitari.
		Come emerge anche dai racconti di La vita degli insetti, Pelevin sembra nutrire poca fiducia nello scorrere del tempo fisico, e ogni evoluzione per lui avviene al contrario, invertendo le gerarchie consolidate e trascinandosi dietro una scia di detriti e schegge taglienti sotto forma di ricordi e allucinazioni.
		Pelevin è stato paragonato a Nabokov, anche se la sua capacità di connettere immagini e concetti di diversa provenienza – all’incrocio tra buddismo e scienze cognitive - lo avvicina ai migliori scrittori cyberpunk americani.
	www.eseresi.it.cob-web.org:8888 /ri_pelevin.htm (937 words)

	Pelevin,Viktor Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Chronicling the garish excesses of post-Soviet Russia, Victor Pelevin's novels have won him cult status at home and critical acclaim in the international press.
		In his new novel, Homo Zapiens, Pelevin weaves together a deliciously comic vision of vanity, greed, and advertising -- Moscow style.
		OMON RA is a brilliant satiric novel by Victor Pelevin, the leading Russian novelist of the post-glasnost era and winner of the Little Russian Booker Prize.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Pelevin,Viktor (283 words)

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		One of most interesting and representative literary figures to emerge from the confusion of post-Soviet culture is Viktor Pelevin.
		In Pelevin's insect world the search for self is most often channeled into the ephemeral pursuit of corporeal identification.
		Thus he begins the novel as an esthete inclined to romanticize the danse macabre of his fellow insects as they circle around a neon lamp, but at the same time clearly skeptical of the worth of the locus classicus.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/1999/abstract-105.txt (508 words)

	JRL - Russia, Literature, Modern Books Under Threat
		The three main "targets" selected by Iduschiye Vmeste are Viktor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, and Viktor Yerofeev.
		Pelevin, who became a literary icon for an entire generation of Russian youth in the late '90s, is mostly recognized for his one-time bestsellers Chapaev i Pustota (Chapaev and the Emptiness) and Pokolenie P (Generation P), while Sorokin is famous for his modernist novel Goluboye Salo (Blue Fat).
		Yerofeev, who belongs to the generation of the Soviet non-conformist writers of the '80s, became internationally known after publishing the novel Russkaya Krasavitsa (The Russian Beauty).
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6028-12.cfm (425 words)

	The Brownstone Journal
		Victor Pelevin is one of Russia’s most well-known authors of today.
		This story is the sixth chapter of Pelevin’s novel The Life of Insects.
		Unable to watch, she had turned her face and saw on the staircase covered with a rug, on the arm of a large red-haired lieutenant in shiny boots, the ugly piece of trash from the marketplace descending with a triumphant look, wrapped in a lemon-colored tapestry with bunches of violet grapes.
	www.bu.edu /brownstone/issues/9/gutin.html (2985 words)

	Death and the Penguin (Panther) - Andrey Kurkov, George Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is also interesting to read this alongside the works of contemporaries such as Evgenev Popov and Viktor Pelevin.
		The zoo couldn't afford to feed the animals, and gave them away, and though the novel isn't about him, the lonely and warm penguin Misha proves a memorable foil to the human characters.
		The actual story is about the writer, Viktor, gradually and unwittingly embroiling himself in a shadowy revolutionary plot, and as characters come and go, some off to lie low, some assassinated, he proves to be as clueless as his pet in a world that's seen all its structures disintegrate in the Soviet decline.
	www.bookswap.ws /Content/findonamazonuk-Asin-1860469450.html (902 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Omon Ra: Books: Viktor Pelevin,Andrew Bromfield (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trained as a cosmonaut for the Soviet space programme, the hero of this novel, whose name combines the Russian word for special police force and the Ancient Egyptian sun god, finds that his mission to the moon develops unexpectedly, and builds to a bizarre conclusion.
		This was the first of Pelevin's novels that I've read, and it's a certainty to say that it will not be the last.
		This was the first of Viktor Pelevins books I read.
	www.amazon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Omon-Ra-Viktor-Pelevin/dp/0571177980 (533 words)

	Selected Literatures and Authors Pages - Russian Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eisen, Samuel D. Politics, poetics and profession: Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum and the understanding of literature (1919-1936).
		English Formalism and Russian Formalism: Clive Bell and Viktor Shkovsky.
		Abstract of Samuel D. Eisen's dissertation Politics, poetics and profession: Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum and the understanding of literature (1919-1936).
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/lit_authors_russian.html (1358 words)

	Fiction: 'Saving the Kremlin' by Viktor Pelevin \| Prospect Magazine June 1996 issue 9
		Fiction: 'Saving the Kremlin' by Viktor Pelevin
		Viktor Pelevin is one of Russia's finest comic writers.
		Sol can either go to the dentist, or play poker with an old friend
	www.prospect-magazine.co.uk /list.php?author=681 (466 words)

	viktor pelevin - Dissensus
		--> viktor pelevin, Posted 02-11-2006, 04:19 PM Quote
		in comparison to pelevin its a bit "lite" i guess.
		Ive read most of Pelevin's stuff, except the "helmet of horror", sitting at the bottom of a pile of books to be read...
	www.dissensus.com /showthread.php?p=65125#post65125 (560 words)

	The Clay Machine Gun - Viktor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comment: The most exciting modern novel I have read since the great Riddley Walker.
		Comment: One of the strangest books you're ever likely to read, this manages to combine a thriller about mistaken identity with meditations on metaphysics.
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	www.bookswap.ws /Content/findonamazonuk-Asin-0571201261.html (546 words)

	Johnson's Russia List #4267
		Viktor Pelevin is one of the funniest novelists writing today, and this book,
		Pelevin is an early inhabitant of wild Russian capitalism - his theme here -
		One of the reasons why Pelevin has become so popular in the west is that,
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/4267.html (6844 words)

	Buzzwords @ 3 A.M. MAGAZINE - www.3ampublishing.com
		iktor Pelevin, born in 1962, turned to writing in his late twenties after studying to become an engineer in electronics.
		An English translation of Pelevin's latest novel, which sold more than 200,000 copies when it was published in Russia last year, will soon be available.
		Soon, no doubt, it will stand for Generation Pelevin.
	www.3ammagazine.com /magazine/issue_2/articles/buzzwords.html (1390 words)

	Books and Writing - 23/09/2001: Post Soviet Writing
		This week on the program, books set in Russia, Georgia and Armenia.
		Dubbed the Russian Will Self, bad boy Viktor Pelevin was a guest at the recent Melbourne Writers' Festival.
		He spoke to Robert Dessaix, about the Great Russian Literary Tradition, his status as the current megastar of Russian letters and the post Soviet obsession with money, cocaine and all things Western.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s368202.htm (132 words)

	Hexapedia - Victor Pelevin (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1992 a book of Pelevin's collected stories The Blue Light received the first annual Russian Booker Prize for fiction, and next year his first novel, Omon Ra, propelled him from relative obscurity to large print runs and fame practically overnight.
		He rarely gives interviews and is said to have very few friends.
		Pelevin's prose is usually devoid of any dialog between the author and the reader, whether through plot, character development, literary form or narrative language, which corresponds to his philosophy (both stated and unstated) that, for the most part, it is the reader who infuses a text with meaning.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Viktor_Pelevin (357 words)

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