Виктор Пелевин между господом нашим Фордом и парадоксом Эпименида

Abstract

This article examines V. Pelevin's Generation 'П'(1999) as a fin-de-siècle expression of dystopian imagination. The novel refurbishes classical dystopian con- 262 ventions by portraying a self-perpetuating "realized" dystopia that dismisses the saving qualities of art or erotic passion, implicates all the populace in the social impasse, and fails to imagine ways of escape from the social deadlock. It presents the violent imposition of an alien order of life as a radical ontological and epistemological break, coordinates its mythological layer with its grim social scenario, and posits itself as both a condemnation of Brave New Russian and as its successful offspring, thus short-circuiting its own dystopian critique.