Память из гипса. О хрупкости традиции и моделировании прошлого-будущего в позднем творчестве Виктора Пелевина
Memory made of plaster. On the fragility of tradition and modelling of the past-future in the late works of Victor Pelevin

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at interpreting two recent novels by Viktor Pelevin — Mafusail’s Lamp and iPhuck 10 in the context of time-space, remembrance and oblivion. The analysis revealed the Russian writer’s vast interest in the physical and philosophical theories related to the true nature of the Universe. Therefore, time and space are inextricably connected in the relevant novels as they form a whole network of parallel realities. Moreover, the realities do not function in the linear way, as human beings would like to perceive them. In Mafusail’s Lamp time travel is possible, but the introduced modifications of the past make the future impossible (in fact, the amendment of the past leads to an utterly new time-space). On the other hand, time travel in iPhuck 10 takes an unorthodox form of world creation (in this case — a world struggling to revive traditional spiritual values), as remembrance in the novel calls for constructing a whole new world. Thus, time travel hardly makes any sense, as all possible worlds exist simultaneously.

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