Companion to Victor Pelevin

<p><b><i>Companion to Victor Pelevin</i> a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. </b></p><p>It provides a valuable resource to scholars teachers and students including how best to teach Pelevin to university-level students and which critical debates invite further investigation. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin's oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium. Examining all of Pelevin’s major works and all Peleviniana currently available in English the <i>Companion</i> aims to prompt further inquiry into this author’s intellectually stimulating and socially prescient work.</p>