{"id":207,"date":"2025-01-09T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/the-mysterious-novelist-who-foresaw-putins-russia-and-then-came-to-symbolise-its-moral-decay-russia-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:35:03","slug":"the-mysterious-novelist-who-foresaw-putins-russia-and-then-came-to-symbolise-its-moral-decay-russia-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/the-mysterious-novelist-who-foresaw-putins-russia-and-then-came-to-symbolise-its-moral-decay-russia-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin\u2019s Russia \u2013 and then came to symbolise its moral decay | Russia | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Generation P imagines advertising, television and politics as the key tools that corrupt, secretive interests use to create a false reality. The novel\u2019s hero, Vavilen Tatarsky, is an aspiring poet whose literary ambitions are scrambled by the Soviet collapse. In the free-for-all of newly capitalist Russia, Tatarsky goes into advertising, \u201ctranslating\u201d American&nbsp;slogans into Russian ones. (\u201cGucci for Men:&nbsp;Be a&nbsp;European, smell better.\u201d) In typical Pelevinian fashion, this over-the-top satire of an already-over-the-top reality soon transmogrifies into an occult, psychedelic fantasy. High on mushrooms, Vavilen discovers that the Russian government is a virtual reality scripted by writers, acting in service of the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/jan\/09\/victor-pelevin-the-mysterious-novelist-who-foresaw-putins-russia-and-then-came-to-symbolise-its-moral-decay\">www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/jan\/09\/victor-pelevin-the-mysterious-novelist-who-foresaw-putins-russia-and-then-came-to-symbolise-its-moral-decay<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation P imagines advertising, television and politics as the key tools that corrupt, secretive interests use to create a false reality. The novel\u2019s hero, Vavilen Tatarsky, is an aspiring poet whose literary ambitions are scrambled by the Soviet collapse. In the free-for-all of newly capitalist Russia, Tatarsky goes into advertising, \u201ctranslating\u201d American&nbsp;slogans into Russian ones. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}