Акико

by Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин

Файл электронной книги подготовлен в Агентстве ФТМ, Лтд., 2013

19 pages, Kindle Edition

About the author

Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist texts, fusing together elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies. Some critics relate his prose to the New Sincerity and New Realism literary movements.

RU: Виктор Пелевин

Reviews

[Vladimir (mecha_yota) Altukhov]

Akiko by Victor Pelevin

Read with the "Paper Wings" short story club.

A satirical commentary on internet privacy, online scamming, and usage of porn sites.

I’m not well versed in Pelevin, so I probably missed a bunch of references to his other stuff with flavors of Buddhist philosophy, but from this detached standpoint I don’t find the story that much interesting. Pelevin handles the comedic part very well, a few jokes defo made me laugh outloud, but the core of the story didn’t feel like it was providing a new, engaging outlook on the problem. It also lacked a lot of Pelevin’s defining elements I enjoyed in his other, bigger works.

So, yeah, a nice entry to have a couple of laughs and that’s it.

[Varia Selina]

Рассказ такой грелочный, миленько