The waste daily life of consumer. Viktor Pelevin’s novel Generation “P” in the light of Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity Cover Image

Śmieciowa codzienność konsumenta. Powieść Wiktora Pielewina Generation „Π” w świetle teorii płynnej ponowoczesności Zygmunta Baumana
The waste daily life of consumer. Viktor Pelevin’s novel Generation “P” in the light of Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity

Author(s): Bożena Żejmo
Subject(s): Sociology, Novel, Russian Literature, Philosophy of Law, Theory of Literature, Philosophy of History, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: Victor Pelevin; Daily; Bauman;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyze the novel by Victor Pelevin Generation “P” in the context of the theory of “fluid modernity” of the Polish philosopher and sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Both the Russian writer and the Polish scholar point out the negative effects of the modern — unusually flexible, fluid, free from borders and conditions — commercial civilization on a person’s daily life, his mentality, value system, self-identification and self-esteem.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 170
  • Page Range: 25-41
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish