Dream Sequences and Subjective Reality in Two Short Stories by Victor Pelevin

Jeffrey Riggs

Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Schatz, David

Keywords

Dream, Subjective Reality, Contemporary Russian Literature, Pelevin, Victor

Area of Concentration

Russian Language and Literature

Abstract

This essay attempts to contextualize the contemporary Russian author Victor Pelevin within the historical continuum of Russian literature through a study of his representation of dream states in the short stories 'Vera Pavlovna�s Ninth Dream' and 'Sleep'. It contends that Pelevin�s examination of dream states resumes one of the main thematic preoccupations of 19th century Russian authors: the literary depiction of a subjective world. It posits that the dream sequence as a narrative technique was excluded from the continuum of Russian fiction due to the ideological restrictions of Soviet government, and was readapted by Victor Pelevin as a means of representing the surreal conditions of post-Soviet Russia.

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