Sofya Khagi is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She focuses on contemporary Russian literature, modern Russian poetry, the intersections of literature and philosophy, and Baltic cultures. She is the author of Silence and the Rest: Verbal Skepticism in Russian Poetry (Northwestern UP, 2013) and Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics (Northwestern UP, 2021).

Introduction

Victor Pelevin: Life, Works, Critical Debates
Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan

Part One: The Post-Soviet

1. The Early Years: Post-Soviet with a Capital "S"
Michael Martin, University of Michigan

Part Two: Space, Time, History

2. Space-Time Poetics in Chapaev and the Void
Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan

3. Parody of Past and Present in Chapaev and the Void
Christopher Fort, University of Michigan

4. Masking the Void, Voiding the Mask: Viktor Pelevin and the Performance of History
Alexander McConnell, University of Michigan

Part Three: Simulation and Mind Control

5. "The Battle for Your Mind": Transformation of Western Social Theory in Generation '¿'
Dylan Ogden, University of Michigan

6. Totalitarian Literature in Generation '¿'
Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado, Boulder

Part Four: Metamorphosis and Utopia

7. Transformative Reading for Tailless Monkeys: Metamorphoses in The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Grace Mahoney, University of Michigan

8. The Mythic and the Utopian: Visions of the Future through the Lens of Victor Pelevin's S.N.U.F.F. and Love for Three Zuckerbrins
Theodore Trotman, University of Chicago

Appendix
Select Publications by Victor Pelevin in Russian and English