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ABSURD, CZYLI PYTANIE O SENS LUDZKIEJ EGZYSTENCJI. ŻÓŁTA STRZAŁA WIKTORA PIELEWINA
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Baczewska-Murdzek
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-0852
pISSN - 1509-1619
DOI - 10.31648/an.644
Subject(s) - absurdism , absurdity , metaphor , action (physics) , philosophy , literature , space (punctuation) , art , human life , art history , history , theology , physics , linguistics , humanity , quantum mechanics
The world in which the heroes of Victor Pelevin’s novel live is a claustrophobic world.The author situates his characters in a destructive space. A Yellow Arrow, a train on thedeck of which the action takes place, flashes without stopping at the destroyed bridge.It can be read either as a metaphor for human life marked by the absurdity of existence,or as a grotesque image of Russia’s transition. Turning to what is twisted, Pelevin statesthat the absurd can be overcome when one realises its existence and communicates withthe world of absolute values.

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