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Childhood and family

When Victor was not yet ten years old, the future writer’s parents moved to the Moscow district of Chertanovo, where the future writer spent the rest of his childhood. Thanks to his father’s connections, Victor was assigned to the prestigious English special school No. 31, located in the very center of Moscow. In this place, Pelevin Jr. studied foreign languages ​​and mastered the basics of philology. His teachers described him as a bright but somewhat arrogant child who did not get along well with his peers. Among Viti's main hobbies was cycling. He retained his love for this type of transport into adulthood, preferring it to cars.

Despite strong friendship with the word, having graduated from school in 1979, Pelevin did not choose a philological specialty. He began studying the basics of the structure of passenger transport at the Moscow Energy Institute. Later in an interview, he claimed that he enlisted in order to “get away” from the army, “serving in which was like spending two years in prison.” The first year of study was easy for him, the young man was among the most promising students. During his student years, he joined the Komsomol, since the prospect of being labeled an “enemy of the people” did not appeal to him.

After graduating from MPEI in 1985, Pelevin got a job at the department of electric transport at his home university as an engineer. Some sources contain information that Viktor Olegovich served in the aviation troops, but specific years of service are not indicated anywhere. In 1987 (other sources indicate 1985) he entered graduate school, where he studied for the next two years, but did not defend his final project (an electric drive for a city trolleybus with an asynchronous motor).

In 1989, Victor entered the Literary Institute. Gorky. With one goal - to acquire useful contacts. During my studies at Literary Institute Pelevin met two young writers - Albert Egazorov and Viktor Kulle. Soon the friends founded their own publishing house “Myth” (originally called “Day”). Victor, as an editor, prepared for the publishing house a three-volume book by Carlos Castaneda, a North American author who studied the esoteric practices of the Indians, and also took part in the work on some smaller works.

Victor Pelevin in the program “The Main Character”

Some time later, Victor Pelevin also began working in the Face to Face magazine, and then in the Science and Religion publication, for which he prepared various publications related to Eastern mysticism. In 1989, the last of these magazines published the story “The Sorcerer Ignat and the People,” which became the debut writing work Pelevin.

The work of Victor Pelevin

In 1993, Pelevin received the Small Booker Prize for his work, and some time later some other awards. In the spring of 1992, another work of the author saw the light - the novel “Omon Ra”, which instantly made it onto the list of works nominated for the Booker Prize. In a similar way things were the same with another novel, “The Life of Insects,” which appeared on bookstore shelves in 1993.

In 1996, another book by Pelevin, “Chapaev and Emptiness,” was published. Many Russian critics they immediately did not fail to call it the first book in Russia written in accordance with the philosophy of “Zen Buddhism.” The author himself called his novel a story that takes place in complete emptiness. Anyway, this book became very successful. In 1997, the novel received prestigious award The Wanderer, and a few years later was shortlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Awards.

However, the real zenith of Pelevin’s work was the novel “Generation P,” which sold 3.5 million copies worldwide and also received a huge number of awards in Russia and Europe.

Victor Pelevin and Generation P. Special report.

After the publication of this book, Victor Pelevin acquired the status of a cult author. His new novels have always been enthusiastically received by fans of the author’s work, as well as literary critics. Repeatedly, the work of the famous Moscow writer even became the subject of detailed consideration by Russian and European literary scholars. Thus, in particular, esoteric, postmodernist and satirical lines were noted in his novels. In addition, it should be noted big influence on Pelevin's novels of Buddhist philosophy. Various publications and Internet portals in Russia and Europe have repeatedly included Viktor Pelevin among best writers and modern thinkers. His books have been translated into many languages ​​(including oriental ones). Several of the writer’s novels, including the cult work “Generation P”, have been filmed.

Personal life of Viktor Pelevin and other facts

In turn, novels and other literary works, published under this name, are created not by one writer, but by a certain group of authors. Supporters of this theory were even more confirmed in this opinion after the writer’s announced appearance at the Super National Best award ceremony did not happen.

Pelevin himself does not comment on questions about his existence.

Victor Pelevin attracts the greatest number of definitions of “the most”. He is the most discussed and sold-out writer in Russia, he is the most published Russian writer abroad, he is the author of the most sensational last years novel "Chapaev and Emptiness", his work evokes the most a large number of praise and scolding reviews from critics and, finally, he is the most mysterious writer in Russia he almost never gives interviews or meets with readers. Nevertheless, Pelevin agreed (for the first time) to meet with readers in London, answer questions and even kindly leave autographs on his books.

Victor Pelevin became known as a science fiction writer: his stories appeared in collections and in the magazine “Chemistry and Life,” which at that time had the best science fiction section. The fame of the young prose writer did not extend beyond the circle of fans of this genre, although not to the so-called “ science fiction", his stories had nothing to do with fantasy. As a result, the first collection of Pelevin’s stories, “The Blue Lantern,” although it disappeared from the shelves almost instantly, remained at first unnoticed by the so-called serious criticism. On next year Blue Lantern wins the Small Booker Prize for best collection stories in 1992, soon three sensational books by the writer were published one after another: “OMON Ra”, “The Life of Insects” and “Yellow Arrow”.

Today, Victor Pelevin, who is only 37 years old, is, of course, indisputably, indisputably one of the most popular (to put it bluntly, famous) Russian prose writers, not only abroad, where his books are translated one after another, but also at home. Issues of the magazine “Znamya”, where his novel “Chapaev and Emptiness” was first published, were in great demand, like hot cakes, so copies of “thick” magazines were sold out only during the half-forgotten reading boom, the notorious “frenzy” of the notorious “perestroika”. When the novel was published as a separate volume in the prestigious black series of the respectable Vagrius publishing house, for a very long time it remained the most bought and sold NON-DETECTIVE (alas, the world is sad) book in Russia.

Victor Pelevin does not engage in self-promotion, like many authors, and avoids journalists. Those who call him are greeted in the answering machine by a polite lady’s voice: “You dialed such and such a number. Leave your message after the beep. Do not offer intimacy and Herbalife.” There are the most incredible rumors about him: they say that he is actually a bandit who controls a network of commercial stalls, or, for example, the writer has taken a vow of silence and does not talk to anyone. However, as the brilliant joke says: one does not exclude the other.

Pelevin firmly believes (not without captivating trickery) in the total illusory nature of the reality in which we live, or, more precisely, we believe that we live. Every now and then he charmingly models other worlds and tells alternative versions creepy Russian history: then the control center of the Soviet of Deputies is located in the dungeons under the Kremlin (and not in the minds and hearts of faithful Leninists) “The Tale fiery yo" Gorbachev’s perestroika occurs as a result of the mystical exercises of the toilet cleaner Vera Pavlovna, exiled in Chernyshevsky’s novel “What is to be done?” as punishment for “solipsism at the third stage.”

Captured by the fat fingers of the common mystics of collective farmers, the line between life and death in Pelevin’s work is blurred. Thus, the heroes of “News from Nepal” and “The Blue Lantern” suddenly begin to understand that they are undead, and the old shaman easily summons from the “lower world” the souls of German pilots who died in the war, so that Russian girls, having married them, could leave beyond the blessed border (“Tambourine of the Upper World”).

However, according to the artist, it is within our power to realize the illusory nature of our lives, to lift the rusty visor of everyday vulgarity and “COMMON SENSE” and go out into the sterile light of the sun of true Being. This is what happens to his heroes latest books: visionary chickens bursting out of the window of the poultry farm (“The Hermit and the Six-Fingered”, the thinking moth Mitya turning into a firefly (“The Life of Insects”), the mysterious narrator of “The Yellow Arrow”, who eventually got off the endless train rushing towards the “destroyed bridge”, and also with Chapaev, Anna and Peter Pustota, who at the end of the novel plunge into the URAL “Conventional River of Absolute Love”.

“Chapaev and Emptiness” is the best metaphysical novel in the best Russian metaphysical literature in the world. However, everything is not so with Pelevin and it is simple, it is very possible that all these spiritual and physical adventures occur not with Pelevin’s characters, not with the author, but with the readers

Gentlemen, comrades, ladies and gentlemen! Pelevin is an absolutely amazing narrator, a favorite author of professional commentators who “stick out” on him in the highest and multifaceted sense of this great Russian Marxist-Leninist verb (I stick out, therefore I exist). It is clear that a serious commentary on any Pelevin’s creation will be tens of times larger in volume than the author’s text; you can even play the button accordion in your head without a button accordion. Pelevin's prose is an unheard-of intellectual drug.

And the last thing: among writers (wonderful, highly talented and even brilliant) there are a surprising number of fools in the most common sense of the word. So, Pelevin is an artist of incredible intelligence, a sage, a visionary, a mystic visionary. in the very true meaning Besides, reading it is INCREDIBLY INTERESTING.

In 1979, he graduated from the Moscow English Secondary Specialized School No. 31 (now the Kaptsov Gymnasium No. 1520). This school located in the very center of the capital, on the street. Stanislavsky (now Leontievsky Lane), was considered prestigious, and immediately became a teacher foreign language and Victor’s mother, Zinaida Efremova, worked as the head teacher. His dad, Oleg Anatolyevich, was also a teacher, but at MSTU. Bauman, at the military department. After graduating from the Moscow Energy Institute in 1985, and serving in the Air Force unit Pelevin tried to study at the Literary Institute, but was expelled. After this, he becomes an employee of the Science and Religion publishing house, where he prepares materials related to Eastern mysticism. His first published work is considered to be a fairy tale published in 1989 - “”.

The first publications of his stories appeared in popular science magazines, in fantasy sections and in collections. Pelevin used in his works some techniques characteristic of fantasy genre, but, basically, his work does not fit into any genre boundaries: his prose is multi-layered, and the most significant in it is the mystical esoteric component.

Subjects of stories V. Pelevina diverse: the writer reanimates many of them mythological stories based on material national life. For the perception of his work, it turned out to be important that the works are imbued with, as they would say in the Soviet Union, “anti-communist pathos.” Ordinary phenomena of Soviet and post-Soviet reality receive an original interpretation and are presented as a manifestation of powerful and evil magical rituals(of particular note is the essay “Zombification”, 1994)

The writer's description of the life of consciousness goes back to many motifs of Western European transcendental philosophy, Buddhism (the novel "" (1996)) and the mystical teachings of Carlos Castaneda (the story "" (1993)).

The first major publication - "" (1992) - immediately made a name V. Pelevina one of the key ones in modern Russian literature. For it he received several awards.

The novel “Chapaev and Emptiness” - immediately after its publication, many critics called best novel of the year.

Pelevin’s prose is characterized by the absence of the author’s appeal to the reader through the work, in any traditional form, through content or artistic form. The author does not “want to say” anything, and all the meanings that the reader finds, he reads from the text on his own. The works of Victor Pelevin have been published in translation in the USA, England, and France.

« Victor Pelevin is called the most famous and most mysterious writer of the “thirty-year-old generation.”

The author himself is inclined to agree with this statement. Reality in his works is closely intertwined with phantasmagoria, times are mixed, the style is extremely dynamic, the semantic load with maximum intellectual richness does not at all overwhelm the reader. His prose is a successful combination of seemingly incompatible qualities: mass character and elitism, acute modernity and immersion in the realities of the past, always seen from a very eccentric angle of vision, as well as the ability to look into the future, which is no longer disputed. Apparently, all this is a component of the incredible success of his works.

At the end of 2009, according to the results of a survey on the website OpenSpace.ru, he was recognized as the most influential intellectual in Russia.

Pelevin is not a public person, which mythologizes his image.

Victor Pelevin is a Russian cult writer, author of the novels “Omon Ra”, “Chapaev and Emptiness” and “Generation “P””, which, in addition to European languages, have also been translated into Japanese and Chinese. According to French Magazine, the writer was included in the list of 1000 most influential figures modern culture. In 2009, the author was awarded the title of the most influential intellectual in Russia according to surveys of users of the OpenSpace website.

Victor Pelevin was born on November 22, 1962 in Moscow. Father Oleg Anatolyevich Pelevin taught at the military department at Moscow State Technical University. Bauman. The writer's mother, Zinaida Semenovna Efremova, taught English at school. Viktor Pelevin spent his childhood years in Moscow. At first his family lived on Tverskoy Boulevard, and after some time moved to Chertanovo, southern region capital Cities.

Victor Pelevin was educated at the prestigious school No. 31 with in-depth study in English, located in the center of Moscow. Today this school has changed its format and has become gymnasium No. 1520 named after. Kaptsov. At that time, the children of representatives studied with the future writer high society and the party elite of the USSR.

According to the recollections of journalist Andrei Trushin, who was friends with the future writer at that time, Victor could be described as a “touching” person. He paid a lot of attention to his own appearance- his clothes always corresponded to fashion, and during walks future writer improvised entire stories where there was absurdity, real life and fantasy intertwined into one piece of art, expressing Pelevin’s attitude towards school and teachers.

In 1979, Pelevin entered the Energy Institute, where he studied at the faculty of electronic equipment for industrial and transport automation. After graduation, he is accepted as an engineer at the Department of Electric Transport. In 1987, Viktor Pelevin entered graduate school at Moscow Power Engineering Institute, where he wrote a dissertation on the topic of the electric drive of a trolleybus with an asynchronous motor. The defense of this work never took place, since Victor decides to change the scope of his activities.

In 1989, he entered the correspondence department at the Literary Institute. , to a prose course led by Mikhail Lobanov. Two years later, Viktor Pelevin was expelled from the literary institute. Later in one of the interviews, the writer will say that the years spent at the institute were in vain. According to him, the only goal of students while studying at this university was to establish connections that Victor never needed.

At the institute, Victor Pelevin meets Albert Egazarov, a young prose writer who free time sold computers that were extremely rare in Moscow of that era. Pelevin weaves some episodes of his biography into his own biography and into the storylines of their characters. So, for example, in curriculum vitae, which Victor filled out in the Znamya magazine on the eve of the publication of the novel Omon Ra, the writer indicates in the column “occupation - computer speculator.”

With the money raised from the sale of computers, Albert decides to open his own publishing house. At the same time, a full-time student, the eccentric secretary of the Komsomol organization Viktor Kulle, who later became famous, joined their company literary critic. It was he who agreed with the rector of the institute to provide premises for a future publishing house in exchange for the annual publication of works written by students.

This is how the Myth publishing house was created, the head of which was Albert Egazarov, and Pelevin and Kulle became its editors and deputies for prose and poetry. In this position, Pelevin prepared for publication a three-volume collected works, the translation of which became much easier to read after Victor’s editorial edits.

Literature

In the early 90s, Viktor Pelevin began to publish in serious literary publishing houses. In the winter of 1991, Victor came to the editorial office of the Znamya magazine with the manuscript of the novel Omon Ra. On editorial board I liked the work and was approved for publication. And in March 1992, the novel “The Life of Insects” was published there, the heroes of which were typical representatives societies in transition. For this novel the writer received a prize from Znamya magazine. A year later, for the collection of short stories “The Blue Lantern,” previously unnoticed by critics, Pelevin was nominated for the Small Booker Prize.

In 1993, the writer was admitted to the Union of Journalists. At the same time, the essay “John Fowles and the tragedy of Russian liberalism” was published, published in Novaya Gazeta. This work was a worthy reaction of the writer to critical reviews of his work, which Victor Pelevin was acutely aware of. At the same time, the myth began that the writer Pelevin does not exist, but only a chain of messages on the screen. This is what Alexander Vyaltsev wrote about him, delivering devastating criticism of Pelevin’s works in the article “Zarathustras and Messerschmidts.”

In 1996, the magazine "Znamya" published a work, later characterized as the first "Zen Buddhist" novel, called "Chapaev and Emptiness." The book received the Wanderer literary award, and in 2001 was included in the list of the most prestigious Dublin Literary Prize.

In 1999, Victor Pelevin’s legendary novel “Generation P” was published, which became a cult favorite and brought its author a special status in Russian literature. The plot of the novel tells the story of a generation of people whose formation occurred at the time of the break of eras, the time when the USSR ceased to exist and old values ​​were collapsing.

This work can be classified as postmodern literature, where reality meets fantastic images, blending into a grand theater of the absurd. Although Pelevin himself wondered in an interview where postmodernism could have appeared in the country, when for a long time only Soviet realism existed. A special place in the lives of the characters in the novel is occupied by narcotic substances, which sometimes act as driving force plot.

In 2004, Pelevin’s sixth novel, “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf,” about the love of a werewolf fox named A Khuli and a werewolf, FSB Lieutenant General Alexander Gray, appeared on bookstore shelves. The plot of the work echoes storylines the novel “Generation P” and the story “Prince of the State Planning Committee”.

Pelevin’s next novel, Empire V, also known as “the story of a real superman,” was published in 2006. It is noteworthy that the novel contains a character from Generation P. The creation of such cross lines is characteristic of Pelevin's style.

In 2009, the Eksmo publishing house released the novel “t,” which mixes Russian history and Eastern mysticism, where the journey of Count “t” (an allusion to) to Optina Pustyn is equated to the search for Shambhala. In 2011, Pelevin’s post-apocalyptic novel “S.N.U.F.F” was published. The work was awarded the “Electronic Book” prize.

Two years later, the novel “Batman Apollo” appeared, and in 2014 the writer pleased readers with a new work, “The Love for Three Zuckerbrins,” about the attributes modern society. In the first volume of the novel “The Caretaker,” which Victor Pelevin called “The Order of the Yellow Flag,” the writer turned to the personality of the emperor. According to the plot of the book, Pavel finds himself in another world thanks to the influence of alchemy, where he receives a teacher as a guide.

In 2016, Pelevin’s novel “The Lamp of Methuselah, or the Final Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons” was published, created in four parts. Everyday story, which tells about the life of the Mozhaisky family, is intertwined with phantasmagoric elements.

Personal life

The writer created around his personality great amount rumors and hoaxes, the most famous of which is the hypothesis that a group of people is working under the pseudonym “Viktor Pelevin”. All factors contribute to the life of this myth, ranging from the subject of creativity to the fact that the writer himself leads an extremely closed lifestyle, does not give interviews and does not appear in society. Therefore, information about Pelevin’s personal life was kept secret. It is only known that the writer does not have a wife or children.

For a long time Victor Pelevin did not create personal accounts in in social networks. But since 2017, an Instagram page began operating on his behalf, where several photographs appeared over the course of a year. The writer, an adherent of Buddhism, repeatedly visited the countries of the East - Nepal, South Korea, Japan and China.

Victor Pelevin now

In 2017, the writer published his 15th novel, “iPhuck 10,” the main character of which was a digital algorithm named Porfiry Petrovich. The computer program investigates crimes and writes books in his spare time. For this work, Viktor Pelevin was awarded a literary prize. And according to Forbes, the novel was included in the ranking of the best-selling books of the year along with works

The second film based on Pelevin’s prose has already entered the final stage of preparation and will premiere in 2018. Also starring will be: The image of the main villain on the screen will be embodied by the rapper.

Bibliography

• 1992 - “Omon Ra”
• 1993 - “The Life of Insects”
• 1996 - “Chapaev and Emptiness”
• 1999 - “Generation “P”
• 2004 - “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf”
• 2006 - “Empire V”
• 2009 - "t"
• 2011 - “S.N.U.F.F.”
• 2013 - “Batman Apollo”
• 2014 - “Love for Three Zuckerbrins”
• 2015 - “The Caretaker”
• 2016 - “The Lamp of Methuselah, or the Extreme Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons”
• 2017 - “iPhuck 10”

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