Victor Pelevin «S.N.U.F.F.»

In the annotation Victor Pelevin described his new work as "a novel about the deepest secrets of the female heart and the highest secrets of flying skill." The scene of the novel "S.N.U.F.F." - post-apocalyptic world (however, this is typical of many anti-utopias, at least take "Kys" by Tatiana Tolstoy).

The world of the novel is limited to two world countries, on whose mutual relations the author concentrates. The bottom (bottom) world is called Urkaina (Urkainsky Urkaganat). It is inhabited by its urchins (they are also called orcs). Urkaina is a technologically backward society whose inhabitants do not differ intellectually (although they are relatively smart). The dream of every orc is to get into the upper world.

The upper world is a floating offshore Urkaina (in fact, a flying ball is combined with offshore), a technologically advanced state - "democracy" Bisantium (Big Byz), inhabited by people. Despite all the "advancement", there are also problems in Bizantium. There is not enough physical space, and laws on the age of sexual consent allow people to enter into sexual contact only at age 46 (for eugenic reasons). Therefore, many residents of the upper world have to live with the robot dolls, which are called suras.

The narrative in the novel "S.N.U.F.F." is conducted on behalf of Demyan-Landulph Damilola Karpova. He works as a news operator, and in parallel with this - the navigator of an unmanned aerial vehicle during the war between people and orcs.

These wars are needed by both races. Orcs they save from overpopulation, and also fall into the hands of authorities and ideologists. And people need a show - "snuff", films, in which real deaths are depicted. «Snuff"Is a news release and an evening entertainment movie in one bottle. Karpov takes them off.

Karpov, like many residents of Bizantium, has a sura taken on credit. Call her Kaya. Despite the fact that Kaya is a biorobot, she has her own personal interests, for the sake of satisfaction of which she is drawn into the intrigue of Karpov and the two orcs.

Like all the books of Victor Pelevin, the novel "S.N.U.F.F." is allegorical. It is full hints of modern society, the perennial confrontation between East and West, whose relations are filed in a satirical manner.

In addition to obscene vocabulary, which Pelevin neverdid not shun, the novel is pretty much novozyaz. Formed from English and Russian words, design means not what we are used to. For example, the Russian word "whirlwind"Is transformed into a phrase vertu high, denoting the upper stratum of the elite.

But, in fact, write reviews on Pelevin's booksuseless. They need to be read by yourself, and only then make up your mind, because Pelevin is a very peculiar writer. So do not miss the opportunity to read "S.N.U.F.F.".

Quotations from the book

"I do not see this as particularly reprehensible. Our information channels do not lie. Orcs are really ruled by a rare bastard who deserves bombing at any moment, and if their regime is not evil in its pure form, then solely for the reason that it is heavily diluted with degenerative insanity "

"The inhabitants of Bizantium must be vain andnotorious sexual neurasthenics, prone to hide the pleasure of someone else's pain for false sympathy and hypocritical moral propaganda - simply because no other mental mode is incompatible with the life here. With all other balances of consciousness, this being immediately reveals the nature and begins to bring a burning pain "

"The power over the world belongs to the financial elite. A bunch of scoundrels, who for the sake of their profit make everyone else suffer unspeakably. These scoundrels hide behind the facade of a false democracy and avoid publicity. Therefore, for the actualization of pleasure, they need a group of people capable of becoming their hidden symbolic representative in the public consciousness "