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{{Short description|Russian fiction writer (born 1962)}}
{{family name hatnote|Olegovich|Pelevin|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox writer 
| name = Victor Pelevin
| image =
| image_size =
| alt = Photo of Victor Pelevin
| caption =
| native_name = Виктор Пелевин
| native_name_lang = ru
| pen_name =
| birth_name = Victor Olegovich Pelevin
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|11|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], Soviet Union
| citizenship = Russian
| occupation = Writer
| language = Russian, English
| education = [[Moscow Power Engineering Institute]]
| period = [[Contemporary literature|Contemporary]]
| years_active = 1989–present
| genres = {{hlist|[[Novel]]|[[novella]]|[[short story]]|[[essay]]}}
| subject = Unfreedom{{sfn|Khagi|2021|pp=4–6}}
| movement = [[Russian postmodernism]]{{sfn|Khagi|2021|p=8}}
| notable_works = ''[[Chapayev and Void]]'' (1996), ''[[Generation P]]'' (1999)
| awards = Multiple
}}
'''Victor Olegovich Pelevin''' ({{lang-rus|Виктор Олегович Пелевин|p=ˈvʲiktər ɐˈlʲeɡəvʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈlʲevʲɪn}}; born 22 November 1962) is a Russian [[fiction]] writer. His novels include ''[[Omon Ra]]'' (1992), ''[[The Life of Insects]]'' (1993), ''[[Chapayev and Void]]'' (1996), and ''[[Generation P]]'' (1999). He is a laureate of multiple literary awards including the [[Russian Little Booker Prize]] (1993) and the [[National Bestseller Literary Prize|Russian National Bestseller]] (2004), the former for the short story collection ''[[Blue Lantern (short story collection)|The Blue Lantern]]'' (1991). In 2011 he was nominated for the Nobel prize in Literature. His books are multi-layered [[Postmodern literature|postmodernist]] texts fusing elements of [[Popular culture|pop culture]] and [[Western esotericism|esoteric philosophies]] while carrying conventions of the [[science fiction]] genre. His early work merged [[postmodern literature|postmodernism]] with [[Buddhism]] and ironic political critiques of [[conservatism]] and [[liberalism]]. His later work builds upon a foundation of post-modernism, but critiques the movement's lack of grand narratives, while also incorporating [[Humanism|humanist philosophy]].{{sfn|Khagi|2021|p=7–8}} Some critics relate his prose to the [[New sincerity]] literary movement.

== Biography ==
Victor Olegovich Pelevin was born in Moscow on 22 November 1962 to Zinaida Semenovna Efremova, an English teacher, and Oleg Anatolyevich Pelevin, a teacher at the military department of [[Bauman MSTU|Bauman University]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=22 November 2012|title=Виктор Пелевин: "Снимаюсь только 30 секунд и в очках!"|url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/25989.4/2919618/|access-date=8 March 2021|website=kp.ru}}</ref> He lived on [[Tverskoy Boulevard]] in Moscow, later moving to [[Chertanovo]]. In 1979, Pelevin graduated from an elite high school with a special English program located on Stanislavskogo Street in the centre of Moscow, now Kaptsov Gymnasium #1520.

He then attended the [[Moscow Power Engineering Institute]] (MPEI) graduating with a degree in electromechanical engineering in 1985.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2009|title=Виктор Олегович Пелевин. Биографическая справка|url=https://ria.ru/20091020/189750870.html|access-date=8 March 2021|website=РИА Новости|language=ru}}</ref> In April of that year, MPEI Department of Electrical Transport hired him as engineer. Pelevin served in the [[Russian Air Force]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2 September 2003|title=Виктор Пелевин: Оргазмы человека и государства совпадают!|url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/23106/23029/|access-date=8 March 2021|website=kp.ru}}</ref> From 1987 to 1989, Pelevin attended the MPEI graduate school.<ref name=":0" />

Pelevin travels to Asia often and has been to Nepal, South Korea, China and Japan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Виктор Пелевин|url=https://polit.ru/news/2020/11/22/pelevin/|access-date=8 March 2021|website=polit.ru}}</ref> While he does not call himself a [[Buddhist]], he is engaged in Buddhist practices.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Д.в|first=Нечепуренко|date=2014|title=В. О. Пелевин. Традиции и новаторство|url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/v-o-pelevin-traditsii-i-novatorstvo|journal=Челябинский гуманитарий|volume=1|issue=26|issn=1999-5407}}</ref> Pelevin has repeatedly said that despite the fact that his characters use drugs, he is not an addict even though he experimented with mind-expanding substances in his youth.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Кочеткова|first=Наталья|date=20 October 2008|title=Писатель Виктор Пелевин: "Олигархи работают героями моих книг"|url=https://iz.ru/news/341912|access-date=8 March 2021|website=Известия|language=ru}}</ref> Pelevin is not married.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Настоящий Пелевин / Стиль жизни / Независимая газета|url=https://www.ng.ru/style/2001-08-29/8_pelevin.html|access-date=8 March 2021|website=www.ng.ru}}</ref>

Pelevin has no current or past public social media accounts (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Контакты / Виктор Пелевин :: сайт творчества|url=http://pelevin.nov.ru/contacts/|access-date=8 March 2021|website=pelevin.nov.ru}}</ref>

In December 2018, the media reported that the writer Victor Pelevin registered in the register of individual entrepreneurs in the territorial office of the [[Pension Fund of the Russian Federation|Pension Fund]] in Moscow.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Новая газета - Novayagazeta.ru|url=https://novayagazeta.ru/news/2018/12/13/147593-pisatel-viktor-pelevin-stal-individualnym-predprinimatelem|access-date=8 March 2021|website=Новая газета - Novayagazeta.ru|language=ru|archive-date=8 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208002644/https://novayagazeta.ru/news/2018/12/13/147593-pisatel-viktor-pelevin-stal-individualnym-predprinimatelem|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Literary career==
In 1989, Pelevin attended Mikhail Lobanov's creative writing seminar at [[Maxim Gorky Literary Institute]].<ref name=":1" /> While studying at the Institute, Pelevin met the young novelist Albert Egazarov and the poet Victor Kulle, later a literary critic. Pelevin was expelled from the Institute in 1991. Egazarov and Kulle went on to found a publishing house, first called ''The Day'', then ''The Raven'' and ''Myth'', for which Pelevin has edited three volumes of [[Carlos Castaneda]]'s work.<ref name=":1" />

From 1989 to 1990, Pelevin worked as a staff reporter for the magazine ''Face to Face''. In 1989, he also began to work in the journal ''Nauka i Religiya'' (Science and Religion), where he edited a series of articles on eastern [[mysticism]]. In 1989, ''Nauka i Religiya'' published Pelevin's first short story "''The Sorcerer Ignat and People''".<ref>{{Cite news|last=БАЛУЕВА|first=Анна|date=7 December 2010|title=Ядовитый мальчик Пелевин|url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/24603/774395/|access-date=8 March 2021|website=kp.ru}}</ref>

In 1991, Pelevin published his first collection of stories ''[[Blue Lantern (short story collection)|The Blue Lantern]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khagi |first=Sofya |date=2017-07-27 |title=An Anti-Authoritarian Mind |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/slavic/news-events/all-news/search-news/an-anti-authoritarian-mind.html |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=U-M LSA Slavic Languages and Literatures |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Pelevin|first=Viktor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzVgAAAAMAAJ&q=%C2%AB%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C%C2%BB|title=Синий фонарь|date=1991|publisher=Tekst|isbn=978-5-85950-013-0|language=ru}}</ref> Two years later, it received the [[Russian Little Booker Prize]]. In 1994, it received InterPressCon and the Bronze Snail awards. In March 1992, Pelevin published his first novel ''[[Omon Ra]]'' in the literary journal ''[[Znamya]]''.<ref name=":1" /> The novel attracted the attention of literary critics and was nominated for the Booker Prize. In April 1993, the same journal published Pelevin's next novel ''The Life of Insects''.<ref name=":1" /> In 1993, Pelevin published an essay "John Fowles and the tragedy of Russian liberalism" in [[Nezavisimaya Gazeta]]. The essay was the writer's answer to some negative critics' reactions to his work. In the same year, Pelevin was admitted to the Russian Union of Journalists.

In 1996, Pelevin participated in the [[International Writing Program]] residency at the University of Iowa.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Viktor Olegovich PELEVIN {{!}} The International Writing Program|url=https://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/viktor-olegovich-pelevin|access-date=8 March 2021|website=iwp.uiowa.edu}}</ref> That same year, Znamya published Pelevin's novel ''Chapayev and Void''. Critics called it "the first [[Zen|Zen Buddhist]] novel in Russian".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Немцы экранизируют роман Пелевина "Чапаев и пустота"|url=https://www.vesti.ru/article/2042132|access-date=8 March 2021|website=vesti.ru|language=ru}}</ref> The writer himself called it "the first novel which takes place in an absolute vacuum". In 1997, the novel won {{ill|Strannik (Russian Literary Award)|lt=Strannik Literary Award|ru|Странник (премия)}} for science fiction, and in 2001 it was shortlisted for the [[International Dublin Literary Award]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=5 March 2001|title=World's richest fiction prize reveals shortlist|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1203133.stm|access-date=8 March 2021}}</ref>

In 1999, Pelevin's novel ''Generation P'' was published. Over 3.5 million copies have been sold worldwide.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} The book received a number of awards including Germany's Richard Schoenfeld Prize.<ref name=telegr>{{cite web
| url =https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/5214172/Five-popular-modern-Russian-writers.html
| title =Five popular modern Russian writers
| date =2009-04-24
| publisher =The Telegraph
| access-date =2023-09-10}}</ref>

In 2003, Pelevin published the novel ''The Dialectics of Transition Period from Out of Nowhere to Nowhere'' or ''DTP (NN)'', receiving the [[Apollon Grigoryev]] Prize in 2003 and the National Bestseller award in 2004. DTP (NN) was also shortlisted for the [[Andrei Bely Prize]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Лауреатом "Нацбеста" стал Виктор Пелевин|url=https://rg.ru/2004/05/31/nacbest.html|access-date=8 March 2021|website=Российская газета|date=31 May 2004 |language=ru}}</ref>

In 2006, [[Eksmo]] published Pelevin's novel ''[[Empire V]]''. The novel was shortlisted for the Russian [[Big Book (award)|Big Book]] award.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Кочеткова|first=Наталья|date=3 November 2006|title=Писатель Виктор Пелевин: "Вампир в России больше чем вампир"|url=https://iz.ru/news/318686|access-date=8 March 2021|website=Известия|language=ru}}</ref> The text of ''Empire V'' appeared on the Internet even before the publication of the novel. Representatives of Eksmo claimed that it was a result of a theft, but some speculated that it was a marketing ploy.

In October 2009, the novel ''[[T (novel)|t]]'' was published. The author received the third award of the fifth season of the Big Book award (2009–2010) and won the reader choice vote.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Национальная литературная премия "Большая книга": Итоги|url=http://www.bigbook.ru/win/win2010.php?ID=1805|access-date=8 March 2021|website=www.bigbook.ru}}</ref>

In December 2011, Eksmo released Pelevin's novel ''[[S.N.U.F.F.]]'' which received the E-book award for "Prose of the Year" in February 2012.

Literary critics have noted Pelevin's [[postmodernism|postmodernist]] and [[absurdism|absurdist]] styles, which incorporate Buddhist motifs, esoteric traditions, and satirical science fiction. Pelevin's books have been translated into many languages including Japanese and Chinese. In 2009, the ''French magazine'' chose Pelevin as one of the 1,000 most significant people in contemporary culture.<ref name=telegr/> A 2009 OpenSpace.ru survey voted Pelevin as the most influential intellectual in Russia.

Pelevin is known for not being a part of the literary crowd, rarely appearing in public or giving interviews and preferring to communicate on the internet. When he gives interviews, he talks more about the nature of his mind rather than his writings. This has given grounds for various rumours. For instance, it has been suggested that the writer does not exist and Pelevin is actually a code name for a group of authors or even a computer.

In May 2011, it was reported that Pelevin would personally attend the award ceremony SuperNatsBest, which would have been the writer's first appearance in public. However, he did not come.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Виктор Пелевин примет участие в церемонии "Супернацбеста"|url=https://www.gazeta.ru/news/culture/2011/05/18/n_1844237.shtml|access-date=8 March 2021|website=Газета.Ru|language=ru}}</ref>

Pelevin has permitted all of his texts in Russian predating 2009 (except ''[[P5: Farewell songs of the political pygmies of Pindostan]]'') to be published on the Internet for non-commercial use. Some novels are also available as audio files in Russian.

In December 2010, he wrote a collection of novels and short stories "''[[Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady]]''", which was in the long list of the Russian Literary Award "Big Book" (season 2010/11).<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011|title=Пелевин, Сорокин и другие писатели будут бороться за "Большую книгу"|url=https://ria.ru/20110301/340774342.html|access-date=8 March 2021|website=РИА Новости|language=ru}}</ref>

In March 2013, Pelevin's eleventh novel "''[[Batman Apollo]]''" was released, which is a sequel to "''[[Empire V]]''". Then came the novels "[[Love for three Zuckerbrins|''Love for Three Zuckerbrins'']]" (2014), "[[The Caretaker (Pelevin novel)|''The Caretaker'']]" (2015), "''[[Methuselah's Lamp, or The Last Battle of the Chekists and Masons]]''" (2016).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Премьера "Бэтмана Аполло" в магазинах "Москва"|url=https://eksmo.ru/news/1516309/|access-date=8 March 2021|website=eksmo.ru|language=ru}}</ref>

In 2017, the novel "''[[iPhuck 10]]''" was published, which won the Andrew White Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Пелевин стал лауреатом Премии Андрея Белого|url=https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5a2059729a7947c32b78a5eb|access-date=8 March 2021|website=РБК|date=30 November 2017 |language=ru}}</ref> In 2018, the novel "''[[Secret Views of Mount Fuji]]''" was released. "''[[The Art of Light Touches]]''" was released in August 2019. In August 2020, the novel "''[[The Invincible Sun]]''" was published.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Роман Виктора Пелевина "Непобедимое солнце" поступил в продажу в трех форматах|url=https://tass.ru/kultura/9302891|access-date=8 March 2021|website=ТАСС}}</ref>

For the past nine years, the author has been releasing one book a year, it can be a novel or a collection of stories united by a common theme.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Мы с ним регулярно созваниваемся, но я не знаю, с какого номера он звонит" --- Интервью редактора Виктора Пелевина Ольги Аминовой накануне выхода его нового романа|url=https://meduza.io/feature/2017/09/22/my-s-nim-regulyarno-sozvanivaemsya-no-ya-ne-znayu-s-kakogo-nomera-on-zvonit|access-date=8 March 2021|website=meduza.io}}</ref> In the fall of 2021 the book "[[Transhumanism Inc.|''Transhumanism Inc''.]]" was published, which is a collection of stories united by the theme of the concept of [[transhumanism]].

In September 2022, the novel “KGBT+” was published, which is a sequel to the previous novel “Transhumanism Inc.”.

In November 2022, the documentary film ''Pelevin'' directed by Rodion Chepel was released. The author studied archives and early works of Pelevin, interviewed the writer's acquaintances, his childhood friends, colleagues and researchers of the writer's work.

In 2023, the novel “Journey to Eleusin” was published. It also became the sequel to two previous novels, “KGBT+” and “Transhumanism Inc.”.

In September 2024, it was revealed that Victor Pelevin will release a new novel "Krut'". Sales of the new book started on October 3, 2024.

In September 2025, Viсtor Pelevin's new novel, "A Sinistra", was published. Sales in bookstores and online began on September 18, 2025.

==Literary style==
Pelevin's prose, creating a mythologized and multi-layered picture of reality, is built on the interweaving of the fantastic and the real, the historical and the fictional. In the spirit of postmodernism, it abounds in hidden quotations, allusions, the game semantic clichés, and [[irony]]. Buddhist symbolism neighbours in it with occultism, European philosophy with mysticism, didacticism with parody, and active presence of realities of modern culture with an appeal to archaic consciousness.<ref name=":2">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Пелевин, Виктор Олегович |trans-title=Victor Pelevin |author= |lang=ru |year=2018 |encyclopedia=Большая российская энциклопедия/[[Great Russian Encyclopedia]] Online |url=https://bigenc.ru/literature/text/2709581 |access-date=2021-03-08 |archive-date=2021-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224204049/https://bigenc.ru/literature/text/2709581 |url-status=live }}</ref> But, he employs postmodernist devices for [[humanism|humanistic]] ethos.{{sfn|Khagi|2021|p=8}}

Pelevin's works are characterized by the mixing of elements of different genres — [[adventure fiction|adventure novel]] and [[parable]], [[fairy tale]] and [[anecdote]], [[pamphlet]] and [[utopia]].<ref name=":2" />

In a conversation with ''[[BOMB Magazine]]'', Pelevin named Russian author [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]'s ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' as an early influence on his reading, saying, "The effect of this book was really fantastic. [...] This book was totally out of the Soviet world." Pelevin avoids, however, listing authors who have specifically influenced his writing, for he believes that "the only real Russian literary tradition is to write good books in a way nobody did before."<ref>Kropywiansky, Leo. [http://bombsite.com/issues/79/articles/2481 "Victor Pelevin"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050333/http://bombsite.com/issues/79/articles/2481 |date=14 August 2011}}. ''[[BOMB Magazine]]''. Spring 2002. Retrieved 26 July 2011.</ref>

==Selected bibliography==

===Novels===

*''[[Omon Ra]]'' / ''Омон Ра'' (1992)
*''[[The Life of Insects]]'' / ''Жизнь насекомых'' (1993)
*''[[Buddha's Little Finger]]'' (aka ''Clay Machine-Gun'') / ''Чапаев и Пустота'' ([[Chapayev and Void]]) (1996)
*''[[Generation "П"|Generation "P"]]'' (aka ''Babylon'', ''Homo Zapiens'') / ''Generation "П"'' (1999)
*''[[Numbers (novel)|Numbers]]'' (as part of the book ''DTP(NN) - The Dialectics of the Transition Period (from Nowhere to No Place)'' / ''ДПП(NN) - Диалектика Переходного Периода (из Ниоткуда в Никуда)'') / ''Числа'' (2004)
* ''[[The Sacred Book of the Werewolf]]'' / ''Священная Книга Оборотня'' (2004)<ref>{{cite news|first1=Liesl|last1=Schillinger|access-date=4 February 2021|title=Demonic Muse (Published 2008)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/review/Schillinger-t.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=26 September 2008|issn=0362-4331|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
* ''[[The Helmet of Horror]]'' / ''Шлем ужаса'' (2005)
* ''[[Empire V]]'' / ''Ампир В'' (2006)
* ''[[t (novel)|t]]'' (2009)
* ''[[S.N.U.F.F.]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Batman Apollo]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Love for three Zuckerbrins]]'' / ''Любовь к трём Цукербринам'' (2014)
* ''[[The Caretaker (Pelevin novel)|The Caretaker]]'' / ''Смотритель'' (2015)
* ''[[Methuselah's Lamp, or The Last Battle of the Chekists and Masons]]'' / ''Лампа Мафусаила, или Крайняя битва чекистов с масонами'' (2016)
* ''[[iPhuck 10]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Secret Views of Mount Fuji]]'' / ''Тайные виды на гору Фудзи'' (2018)
* ''[[The Art of Light Touches]]'' / ''Искусство лёгких касаний'' (2019)
* ''Sol Invictus'' <small>(Unconquered Sun)</small> / '' Непобедимое солнце'' (2020)
* ''Transhumanism Inc.'' (2021)
* ''KGBT+'' (2022)
* ''Journey to Eleusis'' / ''Путешествие в Элевсин'' (2023)
* ''Krut’'' / ''Круть'' (2024)
* ''A Sinistra'' (2025)

=== Short story collection ===
* [[Blue Lantern (short story collection)|''Blue Lantern and Other Stories'']] / ''Синий фонарь'' (1991)
*''4 by Pelevin'' (2001)
* ''[[P5: Farewell songs of the political pygmies of Pindostan]]'' / ''П5: прощальные песни политических пигмеев Пиндостана'' (2008)
* ''[[Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady]]'' / ''Ананасная вода для прекрасной дамы'' (2010)

=== Short stories ===
* ''[[The Sorcerer Ignat and People]]'' / ''Колдун Игнат и люди'' (1989)
* ''[[The Water Tower (short story)|The Water Tower]]'' / ''Водонапорная башня '' (1990)
* ''[[Hermit and Six-Toes]]'' / ''Затворник и Шестипалый'' (1990)
* ''[[The Reconstructor (short story)|The Reconstructor]]'' / ''Реконструктор'' (1990)
* ''[[Weapon of Retaliation (short story)|Weapon of Retaliation]]'' / ''Оружие возмездия'' (1990)
* ''[[The Life and Adventure of Shed Number XII]]'' / ''Жизнь и приключения сарая Номер XII'' (1991)
* ''[[A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia]]'' / ''Проблема верволка в средней полосе'' (1991)
* ''[[Prince of Central Planning]]'' / ''Принц Госплана'' (1991)
* ''[[Sleep (short story)|Sleep]]'' / ''Спи'' (1991)
* ''[[News from Nepal]]'' / ''Вести из Непала'' (1991)
* ''[[Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream]]'' / ''Девятый сон Веры Павловны'' (1991)
* ''[[Blue Lantern (short story)|Blue Lantern]]'' / ''Синий фонарь'' (1991)
* ''[[Tai Shou Chuan USSR]]'' / ''СССР Тайшоу Чжуань. Китайская народная сказка'' (1991)
* ''[[Mardongi]]'' / ''Мардонги'' (1991)
* ''[[Bulldozer Driver's Day]]'' / ''День бульдозериста'' (1991)
* ''[[The Ontology of Childhood]]'' / ''Онтология детства'' (1991)
* ''[[Built-in Reminder]]'' / ''Встроенный напоминатель'' (1991)
* ''[[Mid-Game]]'' / ''Миттельшпиль'' (1991)
* ''[[The Yellow Arrow]]'' / ''Желтая стрела'' (1993)
* ''[[Crystal World (short story)|Crystal World]]'' / ''Хрустальный мир'' (1991)
* ''[[Uhryab]]'' / ''Ухряб'' (1991)
* ''[[Music from the Pillar]]'' / ''Музыка со столба'' (1991)
* ''[[Kreger’s Revelation ]]'' / ''Откровение Крегера'' (1991)
* ''[[Nika (short story)|Nika]]'' / ''Ника'' (1992)
* ''[[The Tambourine of the Upper World ]]'' / ''Бубен Верхнего мира'' (1993)
* ''[[The Tambourine of the Lower World]]'' / ''Бубен Нижнего мира '' (1993)
* ''[[Sigmund in a Cafe]]'' / ''Зигмунд в кафе'' (1993)
* ''[[The Origin of Species (short story)|The Origin of Species]]'' / ''Происхождение видов'' (1993)
* ''[[Ivan Kublakhanov]]'' / ''Иван Кублаханов'' (1994)
* ''[[The Tarzan Swing (short story)|The Tarzan Swing]]'' / ''Тарзанка'' (1994)
* ''[[Xmas Cyberpunk, or Christmas Night-117.DIR]]'' / ''Святочный киберпанк, или Рождественская Ночь-117.DIR'' (1996)
* ''[[The Greek Version]]'' / ''Греческий вариант'' (1997)
* ''[[A Concise History of Paintball in Moscow]]'' / ''Краткая история пэйнтбола в Москве'' (1997)
* ''[[The Low Tundra]]'' / ''Нижняя тундра'' (1999)
* ''[[Time Out (short story)|Time Out]]'' / ''Тайм-аут, или Вечерняя Москва'' (2001)
* ''[[Macedonian Criticism of French Thought]]'' / ''Македонская критика французской мысли'' (2003)
* ''[[Wind Search Record]]'' / ''Запись о поиске ветра'' (2003)
* ''[[The Guest at the Fest of Bon]]'' / ''Гость на празднике Бон'' (2003)
* ''[[One Vogue]]'' / ''Один вог'' (2003)
* ''[[Who by fire (short story)|Who by fire]]'' / ''Who by fire'' (2005)

=== Essays ===
* ''[[Zombification (essay)|Zombification]]'' / ''Зомбификация'' (1990)
* ''[[Fortune telling with Runes (essay)|Fortune telling with Runes]]'' / ''Гадание на рунах'' (1990)
* ''[[GKChP as the Tetragrammaton]]'' / ''ГКЧП как Тетраграмматон'' (1993)
* ''[[John Fowles and the Tragedy of Russian Liberalism]]'' / ''Джон Фаулз и трагедия русского либерализма'' (1993)
* ''[[Ixtlan - Petushki]]'' / ''Икстлан — Петушки'' (1993)
* ''[[The Names of Oligarchs on the Map of the Homeland]]'' / ''Имена олигархов на карте Родины'' (1998)
* ''[[The Warrior's Last Joke]]'' / ''Последняя шутка воина'' (1998)

==References==
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==Sources printed==
* {{cite book |surname=Khagi |given=Sofya |year=2021 |title=Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphisics |series=Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |place=Evanston, Il |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=9780810143036 |url=https://ru.scribd.com/document/551846745/Pelevin-and-Unfreedom-Poetics-Politics-Metaphysics-by-Sofya-Khagi}}
* ''Mørch, Audun J.''. "[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00806760500311928 Reality as Myth: Pelevin's Čapaev i Pustota]", in: ''Scando-Slavica''. Vol. 51. No.1. (2005): 61–79.
* ''Orthofer, M. A.''. The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction. Columbia University Press, 2016. {{ISBN|9780231518505}}. {{ISBN|0231518501}}.
* ''Yurchak, Alexei''. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. — Princeton University Press, 2013. {{ISBN|9781400849109}}. {{ISBN|1400849101}}.

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070228165631/http://www.ndpublishing.com/ New Directions] New Directions publishes English translations of Victor Pelevin's work including ''Omon Ra'', ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia'', ''Yellow Arrow'', and ''The Blue Lantern and Other Stories''.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081005084449/http://www.bombsite.com/issues/79/articles/2481 Interview, spring 2002.] In English, from BOMB magazine.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051126101941/http://shlem.com/ Shlem - New Book of Victor Pelevin (Interactive)]
*[http://bombsite.com/issues/79/articles/2481 2002 ''BOMB Magazine'' interview of Victor Pelevin by Leo Kropywiansky] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050333/http://bombsite.com/issues/79/articles/2481 |date=14 August 2011 }}
* [https://books.google.rs/books/about?id=RKQyDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=sr Empire V on Google books]
* [http://pelevin.nov.ru/ Unofficial fan site] In Russian, since 2000.

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