Victor Pelevin "The Yellow Arrow"

A train "Yellow arrow"Goes to the destroyed bridge. People are born in it, live their whole lives and die without even realizing that they are the passengers of the train. They even stopped beating the wheels with time, so familiar was the sound accompanying them from birth to death.

Someone lives in a compartment car, someone - in a reserved seat or even in general, but this, in effect, does not matter: wherever these people live, whatever they do, their existence is limited by train. But they do not even think about the possibility of getting offfrom the train, simply because they do not realize themselves as passengers. They live, fall in love, get married, have children, do business, and all this happens in close train cars and train vestibules.

But Andrei, the protagonist of the story, and his friend Khan know that they are traveling by train "Yellow Arrow", "going to the ruined bridge. Actually, Andrew learns it from Khan. And Khan himself learned about it from a poem written on a wall in one of the vestibules.

There, outside the windows of the train that rushes forward, behind the rails and sleepers, a whole world. But is it possible to get off the train while staying alive? Once the Khan disappears, and Andrei decides that hestill managed to get off the train. And then Andrei realizes that he must leave the Yellow Arrow at any price, as long as he has such an opportunity.

The story "The Yellow Arrow", as, indeed, almost all other books by Victor Pelevin, deeply allegorical. Restriction of people's living space,bringing it to the train, going from nowhere to nowhere - this is a gaming device, and a way to give the book features both a fantastic product and an anti-utopia.

You can love Pelevin's books, you can not love them, you can treat them with indifference, but you can not deny one: his every work makes you think and draw parallels with their own lives. When the last page of the story "Yellow Arrow" is turned upside down, it is worthwhile to think: is not our life like a swiftly rushing train, in which we do not even have time to look through the window?

Perhaps it makes sense to try to get off of it and find yourself a new route. Walking, you can achieve your goal faster,than on a train that runs the risk of never reaching its destination. And to see it will be much more than the rushing poles and the rubbish lying along the rail.

Quotations from the book

"Maybe I myself seem to someone the samelike a yellow arrow that fell on a tablecloth. And life is just a dirty glass through which I fly. And here I fall, I fall, already the devil knows how many years I fall on the table in front of a plate, and someone looks at the menu and waits for breakfast ... "

"In the past, people often argued, there iswhether the locomotive, which pulls us for itself in the future. Sometimes they divided the past into their own and others'. But everything is left behind: life goes forward, and they, as you see, have disappeared. And what's in height? The blind building outside the window is lost in the swell of years. You need a key, and he is in your hands - since you will find him and who will show it to you? We go to the knock of the wheels, we leave the script of the door. "

"He who discarded the world, compared it with yellow dust.

Your body is like a wound, and you yourself are like a madman.

The whole world is the yellow arrow that has fallen into you.

The yellow arrow, the train on which you are going

to the destroyed bridge ".