Russia on the Edge, 2011, p.68
1, 2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- ILLUSORY EMPIRE: Viktor Pelevin’s Parody of Neo-Eurasianism
- Ist Teil von
- Russia on the Edge, 2011, p.68
- Auflage
- 1
- Ort / Verlag
- Cornell University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Among the most popular novels in post-Soviet Russia, Viktor Pelevin’s Chapaev and the Void (Chapaev i pustota, 1996), starts with a preface by an imaginary editor, who addresses his readers as the “peoples of Eurasia”—they are not Russians nor is Russia a place on the map.¹ The novel’s title refers to the popular Civil War hero Vasily Chapaev, the commander made famous in a 1923 novel, a 1930s film, and hundreds of jokes. Pelevin’s editor wants to bring his readers the “truth about Chapaev,” that “has been hidden for too long from the peoples of Eurasia” (ChP,9). The novel
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780801448560, 0801448565Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt7zfc8_9
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Applied sciences, Armed conflict, Authoritarianism, Automobiles, Behavioral sciences, Buddhism, Civil wars, Cognitive psychology, Consciousness, Engineering, Ethnography, Ethnology, Ground transportation, Ground vehicles, Health care facilities, Health care industry, Health sciences, Hospitals, Human populations, Identity, Military science, Motor vehicles, Personality, Personality psychology, Persons, Political ideologies, Political philosophy, Political science, Population studies, Prisoners, Psyche, Psychiatric hospitals, Psychology, Religion, Russian culture, Russian studies, Self, Social sciences, Spiritual belief systems, Stalinism, Transportation, Transportation modes, War, War theaters