Петропоэтика Виктора Пелевина

Abstract

"Victor Pelevin's Petropoetics" looks at Pelevin's oil motif in the context of his key preoccupation-the phenomenon of dehumanization under commodified society. To highlight dehumanization taking place in the global commodified space, the consumer paradigm is represented both in its civilized (monetary) and biological (in the literal sense of consumption) versions. On the level of imagery, stable associative chains present themselves such as the following cluster: humans - animals - a source of energy (oil or blood) - money. The theme of petroleum is thus firmly embedded within the wider context of Pelevin's problematic of consumerism.