Power and the Aerial Sublime in Victor Pelevin

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This essay distinguishes flight as a salient trope throughout multiple Pelevin texts: Omon Ra (1992), Chapaev and the Void (1996), Generation P (1999), Empire V (2006), Love for Three Zuckerbrins (2014). It examines through aesthetics of sublime—classical, (post)-Soviet, postmodern. The “aerial sublime” focuses on motifs flight, elevation, their reversal such descent going underground. Through this analysis, offers an entry point to question Pelevin’s preoccupation with subject’s relation power—political, military, capital-, media-, or technology-driven. airborne protagonist is positioned in spatial counterpoint tyrannical social cosmic forces. One may remain clutches escape, withdraw, comically yield, pragmatically acquiesce. aerial sublime grows increasingly bleak: from internalized ethical experience active thought work without resolution, touching noumenal, apotheosis non-reasoning, non-ethical, inhuman. That is, his later works envision transformed into anti-sublime power annihilating human sentient agent. thereby conveys lessons about ironclad mechanics subject that constituted, coerced, occasionally resistant it.

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عنوان ژورنال: The Russian Review

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['0036-0341', '1467-9434']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12521