Elemente postmoderniste în proza lui Viktor Pelevin
Postmodernist elements in Viktor Pelevin's prose

Summary/Abstract: Due to some critics’ disagreement regarding Viktor Pelevin’s writings, the main objective of this article is to analyze different literary processes which exist in the novels The Clay Machinegun and Generation P, in order to prove whether or not Pelevin is a Postmodernist writer. A start point in this research is to discuss the differences between Western and Eastern European Postmodernism, its basic traits which make this cultural phenomenon unique in Russia and, consequently, different from the same movement that appeared in Western Europe and the Americas. The research identifies and discusses the themes and the artistic features encountered in these novels and puts them in contrast with other writings as well. Also, a great attention is paid to the mystical realm, present almost in every novel or short story Pelevin writes.

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