Viktor Pelevin and Leo the Great: destined to meet

http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/PhS.3-15.074

Kirillina Olga M.,

Ph.D. Candidate of Philology,

Assistant professor at the department of istory of Russiian literature of XX—XXI^th centures

Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts

E-mail: kirillinao@mail.ru

Interest in Buddhism in the range of questions about the simplicity and non-resistance to evil and comprehension of the word as a tool of the writer and the preacher explains the interest of V. Pelevin to the heritage of L. Tolstoy. Pelevin uses Tolstoy’s plots (motive of castration and suicide Karenina) in order to attack Tolstoy’s aspiration not to do distinguish between the cult of simplicity and uncompromising stand. In the novel «t» Pelevin conceptualizes the position of Tolstoy-preacher and he doesn’t take his antithesis of art and life: Pelevin deliberately effaces the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Keywords: V. Pelevin, L. Tolstoy, the novel «t», Buddhism, Tolstoyism, the cult of simplicity, non-resistance to evil, motive of castration, motive of amputation, master and man, death and reincarnation of the author, practical religion.

References

1. Pelevin V.O. «T». — M.: Jeksmo, 2009. — 384 s.

2. Anna Karenina / Tolstoj L.N. Sobranie sochinenij v 12 tomah. — M.: Gosizdat hudozh. literatury, 1958—1959. — T. 9. — 1959.