INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AS THE SUBJECT AND ARTISTIC METHOD IN V. PELEVIN’S NOVEL “LOVE FOR THREE TSUKERBRINS” Cover Image

ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ КАК ТЕМА И ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННЫЙ ПРИЁМ В РОМАНЕ В. ПЕЛЕВИНА «ЛЮБОВЬ К ТРЁМ ЦУКЕРБРИНАМ»
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AS THE SUBJECT AND ARTISTIC METHOD IN V. PELEVIN’S NOVEL “LOVE FOR THREE TSUKERBRINS”

Author(s): Anastasia Leonidovna Bobyleva
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Sociology, Novel, Russian Literature, Philosophy of Language, Social Informatics
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: Viktor Pelevin; cyberpunk; Internet; dystopia; information technologies; postmodernism; intertextuality;

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers the influence of modern technologies and the Internet on V. Pelevin’s novel “Love for Three Tsukerbrins”. The problematic and thematic field, composition and plot, stylistic characteristics are analyzed from the perspective of their involvement in the modern computer discourse. The type of intertextual links, system of images, and language peculiarities of the novel are studied. Their specificity enables the conclusion that information technologies do not only serve as the subject of artistic description, but also turn out to be the factor influencing the poetics of the novel. In addition, it is revealed that the modern types of Internet communications determine the author’s narrative strategy and the reader’s reception.

  • Issue Year: 157/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 163-170
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian