Pelevin Victor "Chapaev and Emptiness"

The novel "Chapaev and Void", which became cult almost immediately after its publication, the author himself defines: "This is the first novel in world literature, whose action takes place in absolute emptiness.




In fact, it occurs in 1919 inChapaev's division, in which the hero, the poet is the decadent Peter the Void, serves as a commissar, as well as in our days, as well as always in Pelevin, in a virtual space where Kavabata, Schwarzenegger, Maria ... "

Quotations from the book

"When you have to talk to the masses, it does not matter at all whether you understand the spoken words themselves." It is important that others understand them. "




"Love, in fact, occurs alone when there is no object near it, and it is directed not so much at the one or the one you love, as in the mind-built image that is loosely associated with the original."



"Why, I thought, why does any social cataclysm in this world lead to this upward emergence of this dark cattle and makes everyone else live according to their mean and conspiratorial laws?"



"Everything in the world is just a whirlpool of thoughts, and the world around us becomes real only potmou, that you become this maelstrom yourself, only because you know."



"As soon as the flow of dreams captures you, you become part of it, because everything is relative in this stream, everything is moving and there is nothing that can be grasped."

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