Victor Pelevin. Riddle and solution of the cult writer
Is there really a real writer Victor Pelevin? The assumption that books written by Pelevin are written by a supercomputer is quite in the spirit of his works. But no machine, but only a man, is able to rise above reality with all the power of abstract meanings.
A person, even a very good person, is always weak if he is alone. He needs … something to make his existence meaningful.
V. Pelevin "Yellow Arrow"
Layers of meanings, layers of realities
Viktor Pelevin is called the most influential intellectual in Russia. His novels amaze the imagination with unusual meanings. The books written by Viktor Pelevin are unique, there are no analogues. Therefore, the writer himself has no one to compare with. He is who he is and he is one of a kind.
In the works of Viktor Pelevin, several layers of reality are surprisingly intertwined, mutually penetrating each other. One of these realities is very similar to ours - scenes from ordinary everyday life are described here, sometimes the cheeky slang of the brothers is heard, the painfully recognizable moments of existence in post-Soviet Russia, as well as mentions of famous people, appear. But the narrative skillfully woven by the author quickly reaches a certain "exit point" - and gradually or suddenly the familiar world begins to transform and deform in the most amazing way.
Who is hiding behind dark glasses?
His works are constantly reprinted and appreciated by many literary awards and prizes. But at the same time, the writer does not meet with readers, hides from the public, hates to give interviews, does not like to be photographed and often wears dark glasses … He gives rare interviews by phone.
Such a seemingly paradoxical behavior gives rise to discussions about whether there really is a real writer Viktor Pelevin? The assumption that books written by Pelevin are written by a supercomputer is quite in the spirit of his works. But no machine, but only a man, is able to rise above reality with all the power of abstract meanings.
So what is this phenomenon: the cult writer Victor Pelevin? Enthusiastic fans consider him to be almost a superman. Ill-wishers criticize: fogged up, is interesting. Both are engaged in fortune-telling in an attempt to discover the phenomenon of this original writer. And only the System-Vector Psychology of Yuri Burlan gives a highly accurate answer to the question about the genius of the sound writer Viktor Pelevin.
The writer and his sonic worlds
Sound specialists in system-vector psychology are people who have a sound vector. A vector is a set of innate mental properties and desires of a person that determines personality traits, behavior, and often a life scenario. There are eight vectors in total. At the same time, seven vectors may well be happy at the level of realization of earthly, completely material desires, and only desires in the sound vector are abstract.
In his stories and novels, Victor Pelevin creates amazing sound worlds full of extraordinary allegories and abstract fantasies. And all this is in attempts to comprehend the world around us, because our reality is always a starting point in the writer's sound search. Such creative attempts at sound understanding of the world sometimes take bizarre forms that fascinate the reader's imagination. The super-effect is achieved when the novels of the sound engineer are read by the same sound people. Equal properties of the psyche allow one to broadcast meanings, while others perceive them without any interference and misunderstanding.
Let us consider from the point of view of the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan what features of the sound vector are present in the writer and his heroes, citing his interviews and works.
Searching for the meaning of life
Understanding what is happening does not mean that it has meaning.
V. Pelevin "Batman Apollo"
"Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is the sense of life?" - these are the main questions of the sound engineer, which he can start asking from the age of six. And it also happens that these questions remain unspoken, unconscious, but nevertheless from the depths of the unconscious they continue to torment with their unresolvedness. This is the very state when outwardly everything seems to be fine, but there is no happiness: people around seem to be gray uninteresting fools, and life is empty and meaningless …
Therefore, often in search of meaning, the sound people travel along the roads of Nepal, study philosophy and esotericism. The writer Pelevin also did not pass this path, manifested in the study of the books of the American writer and mystic Carlos Castaneda (there is information that Pelevin, as an editor, prepared a three-volume Castaneda motives are present in his novel "Chapaev and Emptiness" and other works).
Of course, the writer does not stop there. An intense search for meaning continues - in each new work, the writer carefully examines our life from a new angle. And he always reveals something interesting.
Night life
Pelevin was an hour and a half late. He apologized aggressively: “I was asleep. Woke up. And already six o'clock - and you have to go somewhere. Where to go? You can, of course, press me against the wall, but the fact is that the wall will disappear immediately."
From an interview with V. Pelevin
Thinks and writes at night, sleeps during the day? The usual mode of life of a sound engineer. In the days of the ancient human flock, the species role of a person with a sound vector is the night guard of the flock. Night, silence and loneliness … Everyone is asleep, and only he alone listens intently to the sounds of the night savannah: is not a leopard sneaking?
Millennia have passed, we have been living in big cities for a long time, and no wild animals roam around … But the specific role of the sound engineer is the same - concentration. Today it is a focus on knowing oneself and other people. The mechanism of such concentration is very accurately explained by the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan.
But, as in prehistoric times, the sound engineer thinks best at night. And sleep problems are mostly "sound" problems. If the desires of the sound vector are not fulfilled, a person can either sleep sixteen hours a day, or suffer from insomnia …
Viktor Pelevin in one of his interviews remarked: “For me, all areas are sleeping …” He cannot imagine a life in which one would have to get up and go somewhere in the morning.
Invisible Man
Pelevin is known for not being part of the "literary get-together." He does not appear in public and prefers to communicate on the Internet. I must say that for any sound engineer these days, the main part of life takes place on the World Wide Web - an additional sound-visual reality of the Internet. Sound people do not like live communication and, like no other, need peace and solitude.
However, sound people are egocentric - and this is a great danger. Focusing exclusively on yourself, opposing yourself to this meaningless world is a dead-end path leading to loneliness, depression and suicidal thoughts. On the contrary, focusing on other people, on humanity, is aerobatics for a sound engineer, revealing the main meanings. Victor Pelevin succeeds in this.
Magician of words and meanings
The world is ruled not by a secret lodge, but by an obvious mess.
Victor Pelevin does not just write. He cleverly and inimitably juggles words, gives out new advertising slogans, relishes paradoxes. The language of his novels in a special way combines modern spoken language and slang words with complex texts that tell about the meanings. His novels often use words and phrases in English, which he knows perfectly. Fluency in words and a love of learning languages is another talent for the sound box.
The body that gets in the way
Not a single person in the world can be happier than his own body … But you can be much more unhappy than your body - and this is a unique human know-how.
V. Pelevin "Batman Apollo"
Man is part of the living world. And the natural desire to preserve itself and to continue itself in time has the same power over us. This applies to all people, except for the owners of the sound vector. Only they in their sensations separate body and spirit. For the sound engineer, spirit, consciousness, mind are primary, important, essential. This is something much more than just a perishable body, which is often illusory for him, as well as the external physical world. In not the best conditions, the sound engineer begins to hate his body: the power of the abstract intellect carries him upward, to abstract meanings, and the mortal body keeps him on the ground, because he needs to be fed, clothed and sometimes walked … Sometimes for the sound engineer the body is like a cell that does not give consciousness to unfold in full intellectual power.
That is why the main characters of Viktor Pelevin's novels are not preoccupied with the interests of their bodies - they eat somehow, and often forget to eat at all, do not play sports, and are not fans of a healthy lifestyle. On the contrary, they can go into a heavy binge or even gorge themselves on fly agarics, without thinking about the health consequences …
Depression
Tatarsky finally understood that depression had crept into his soul …
V. Pelevin "Generation P"
Sound depression, when life is not sweet and there is not a drop of meaning in it, is familiar to almost any sound engineer. The system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan explains this by the fact that in modern conditions the sound vector is in a difficult situation: philosophy, religion, exact sciences, music - everything that not so long ago filled the desires of the sound vector, today no longer gives answers to sound questions, and new meanings for the majority have not yet been found. Unaware of the latest discoveries in system-vector psychology, Pelevin's characters from time to time plunge into melancholy and depressive states, the symptoms of which are familiar to the author firsthand …
"Why did you have to eat this rubbish?" He thought wistfully. Drugs
I write about drugs quite often … unfortunately they have become an important element of the culture.
From an interview with V. Pelevin
The scale of the writer's fantasy is amazing. And it makes you seriously think about its sources: maybe he slowly eats amanita or swallows acid marks - the very ones he writes about in his works? However, Pelevin himself repeatedly emphasizes: despite the fact that his heroes take drugs, he himself is not a drug addict, although in his youth he experimented with mind-expanding substances.
However, the intake of various substances was and remains an important part of the narrative in the writer's works. Why? And again, an exhaustive answer is given by the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan. The fact is that the real drug addicts are the sound people. Finding no meaning in ordinary everyday life, they strive with all their might to expand the boundaries of their world.
Various methods of changing consciousness are used - religion, philosophy, esotericism, meditation and the most dangerous - drugs. Can drugs answer the big questions of life and death? Judging by the description of the experiences of one of Pelevin's heroes after the adoption of the acid brand, no.
“When Tatarsky came to his senses, the only thing he wanted was that the experience he had just experienced, for which he had no words to describe, but only dark horror, would never be repeated with him. For this he was ready for anything."
V. Pelevin "Generation P"
The written word. Patterns of meanings
Some kind of cobweb is constantly woven inside me, but it is impossible to predict whether it will eventually give the desired pattern.
From an interview with V. Pelevin
Writing talent is one of the main talents of the anal sound engineer. It is very important not only to focus, but also to write down the results of your thoughts in written word. Writing can partially fill sound desires and give the owner of the sound vector a sense of satisfaction from life.
Victor Pelevin did not immediately find his path. First, he entered and graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. And only ten years after leaving school he entered the Literary Institute, from which he was expelled. But this could no longer change his fate: a real writer does not need a guide. It is only necessary to be able to sensitively focus on the knowledge of the world around, the cause-and-effect relationships of events, to hear the heartbeat and music of the human soul and describe it with a word.
Victor Pelevin's novels are the material result of the work of his abstract intellect. It can be argued that it is written creativity that fills him most of all - this is the transformation of his inner world into thought forms tangible by others. This is the way out for the sound engineer.
Today the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan helped us to plunge into the inner world of the genius Viktor Pelevin. But not everyone knows that the latest discoveries in psychology allow not only a much deeper understanding of your favorite writer, actor, musician or artist, but also learn a lot of interesting things about yourself.
Buddhism, meditation, travel, philosophical and esoteric teachings - how many have been tried, but no worthy meaning in life has been found … Yes, and the favorite novels of the genius Viktor Pelevin fill up for a short time: internal questions continue to demand sound answers. After all, the work of any writer cannot give a sound engineer the meaning of life, while he is just a reader.
Victor Pelevin managed to find and reveal his sonic talent, to realize it to its fullest. But each of us hides his own genius, who is waiting to be revealed! Training in systemic vector psychology helps to know oneself, to discover one's unique abilities. Then our life will not remain “only a shaky ripple of consciousness”, but quite possibly will give the world another genius.
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