Victor Pelevin "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf"

And Juli (which is translated from Chinese simply - "fox A")Ancient fox-werewolf. Roman Pelevin's "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf" tells about her difficult life in a modern megalopolis, intricate relationships with wolf-werewolf Alexander, lieutenant-general of the FSB, about striving to find his destination and the only sure way.

As in other of his texts, Pelevin combinestext of the novel satirical image of modern reality, expressing its opinion on topical issues, and esoteric motives. The result is a branded pelevinsky cocktail, in which everyone can find something of their own. And the "Sacred Book of the Werewolf" is book about love. Love is not easy, in which there are no obvious answers to difficult questions. Love, which is the key to ultimate liberation.

Pelevin likes to "hide" in his texts references to other works art and mass culture - both their own andstranger - in the hope that an inquisitive reader will notice and appreciate them. So, in the "Sacred Book of the Werewolf" he refers to his own books - "Generation P" (Alexander mentions a meeting with Vavilen Tatarsky) and "Problems of werewolf in the middle lane" (in both works, for example, Colonel Lebedenko appears). In addition, the novel has indirect or direct references to a large number of other people's works - from Ulysses by James Joyce to the Elder Edda.

A very important role in the novel is played by music, which permeates the entire narrative. Publishers even provided part of the circulation of the novel audio disc, which contains almost all the musical compositions, quoted or simply mentioned by the author in the work.

Many readers and critics believe that the "Sacred Book of the Werewolf" does not hold out to the writer's earlier works, for example, "The Life of Insects" or "Chapaev and Void." But it is so or not - you decide.

Quotations from the book

"Beauty does not belong to a woman and is not hersown property - just at a certain time of life, her face reflects beauty, like a window glass - the sun that is invisible behind the roofs of the houses. Therefore, we can not say that female beauty fades with time - just the sun goes further, and the windows of other houses start to reflect it. But the sun, as is known, is not at all in the glasses we look at. It is in us. "

"When I pretend, I always haveturns out to be natural. Therefore, I pretend to be always so much more believable than if I suddenly begin to act sincerely. After all, what does it mean to act sincerely? This means expressing one's own essence directly in behavior. And if my essence is to pretend, then the only way to true sincerity for me is through pretense. I do not want to say that I never behave myself. On the contrary, I am portraying the immediacy with all the sincerity that is in my heart. "

"An economy based on mediation generates a culture that prefers to resell images created by others instead of creating new ones."