Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part One: The Post-Soviet
5. 1. The Early Years: Post-Soviet with a Capital “S” 2
6. Part Two: Space, Time, History
7. 2. Space-Time Poetics in Chapaev and the Void 24
8. 3. Parody of Past and Present in Chapaev and the Void 53
9. 4. Masking the Void, Voiding the Mask: Viktor Pelevin and the Performance of History 75
10. Part Three: Simulation and Mind Control
11. 5. “The Battle for Your Mind”: Transformation of Western Social Theory in Generation ‘П’ 106
12. 6. Totalitarian Literature in Generation ‘П’ 127
13. Part Four: Metamorphosis and Utopia
14. 7. Transformative Reading for Tailless Monkeys: Metamorphoses in The Sacred Book of the Werewolf 160
15. 8. The Mythic and the Utopian: Visions of the Future through the Lens of Victor Pelevin’s S.N.U.F.F. and Love for Three Zuckerbrins 186
16. Appendix 203
17. Index 205