INFERNAL FEMALE ESSENCE IN THE CHARACTER PARADIGM OF V. PELEVIN’S ARTISTIC WORLD

Abstract

The article examines the female characters embodied in V. Pelevin’s prose in the context of magical discourse. The three most extensive groups of “infernal entities” have been identified: zoomorphic characters, biorobots and women who have undergone transformation. In almost all the cases considered that a woman becomes a demonic, magical entity through the deprivation of a biological component, representing the deprivation or refusal of the ability to procreate, or physical changes (deprivation of the body, replacement or addition of its parts, etc.). Transformation is often accompanied by the acquisition of supernatural abilities. The presented results will be useful in the further study of the character paradigm in particular and the artistic world of V. Pelevin in general, as well as in the study of the magical in modern literature.