Victor Pelevin

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Victor Pelevin

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born
November 22, 1962 in Moscow, Russian Federation

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aka Виктор Олегович Пелевин (Rus)

"Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist texts, fusing together elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies. Some critics relate his prose to the New Sincerity and New Realism literary movements." (Wikipedia)

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Average rating: 3.81 · 7,846 ratings · 587 reviews · 57 distinct works
Omon Ra
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 963 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions
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The Sacred Book of the Were...
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 938 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions
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The Life of Insects
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 708 ratings — published 1993 — 23 editions
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Buddha's Little Finger
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 719 ratings — published 1997 — 29 editions
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The Yellow Arrow
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
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The Helmet of Horror: The M...
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3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 2005 — 30 editions
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Empire V
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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Homo Zapiens
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 1999 — 33 editions
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A Werewolf Problem in Centr...
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
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The Blue Lantern: And Other...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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“In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.”
Victor Pelevin, Homo Zapiens

“Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.”
Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel

“How can non-existence get sick of itself?

Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing.”
Victor Pelevin, Babylon

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