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Kreger’s Revelation
''Kreger’s Revelation'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. __TOC__ Plot The story, together with the stories ''"Reconstructor (short story), The Reconstructor"'', ''"Weapon of Retaliation (short story), Weapon of Retaliation"'' and ''"Music from the Pillar"'' constitute a kind of cycle of pseudo-historical stories by Pelevin devoted to ideology, Agitation Free, agitation and propaganda during World War II. It is written in a Satire, satirical Pseudohistory, pseudo-historical form. In the story the author makes an attempt to fictionalize history. Formally, this work - the official correspondence (the reader sees reports, memos, minutes, transcripts of tape recordings) between the Reichsführer-SS, Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler, the junior imperial magician Kreger, chief restructurer Wolf and other figures of the Nazi Germany, Third Reich. The reports, memos, protocols, transcripts of tape recordings are presented in the form of a mystical beginning, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Pelevin
Victor Olegovich Pelevin ( rus, Виктор Олегович Пелевин, p=ˈvʲiktər ɐˈlʲɛɡəvʲɪtɕ 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 Russian National Bestseller (2004), the former for the short story collection '' The Blue Lantern'' (1991). His books are multi-layered postmodernist texts fusing elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies while carrying conventions of the science fiction genre. 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 University. He lived on Tver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |