ARTISTIC REALITIES IN VICTOR PELEVIN’S NOVEL “CHAPAEV AND VOID”

Abstract

The article highlights the issue of the influence of artistic realities on the structure and artistic space of Victor Pelevin’s novel “Chapaev and Void”, which is the writer’s most “postmodern” novel. These realities are correlated, first of all, with the phenomenon of intertextuality, representing the text as a canvas woven from quotes, allusions, reminiscences. In the analyzed work, the researcher finds many references to the texts of the works of classical literature and modern mass culture, which will be analyzed here. The system of the analyzed literary text includes not only the main images of the heroes of the novel like Chapaev and Petka, but also secondary characters like Anka and Furmanov are affected. The author considers the image of the archetype of Moscow in the storyline of Russian prose of the twentieth and twenty-first century, with the aim of giving parallels to the historical and cultural method by which this study is built in the article.