Sofya Khagi's book justifies the long wait for the first comprehensive study of Pelevin's oeuvre. Khagi is not afraid of Pelevin's sly paradoxes and his mind-boggling narrative labyrinths . . . The book doesn't simplify Pelevin's portrait; rather, it explores his productive contradiction, depicting him as a daring postmodernist and an acidic critic of postmodernity, a playful ironist and deep ethical thinker, the brightest representative of the last Soviet generation and a merciless deconstructor of this generation's ambitions and achievements." - Mark Lipovetsky, author of Postmodern Crises: From 'Lolita' to Pussy Riot
"Viktor Pelevin's scintillating works unusually combine popular success and metaphysical complexity. Sofya Khagi's Pelevin and Unfreedom brings a rich set of approaches to this writer: philosophy, postmodern theory, religion, and sharp-eyed attention to the multinational intertextuality that Pelevin wields so deftly. Khagi lets us in on the irony, skepticism, and complexity of one of the best-known and most demanding Russian authors today." - Sibelan Forrester, coeditor of Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts
"The first English-language monograph on Viktor Pelevin-Sofya Khagi's Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics-represents a scholarly milestone. Theoretically sophisticated, yet lucid and elegantly composed, the book maps out a fascinating journey through Pelevin's literary imagination, showing us a vision of a contemporary humanity enthralled by techno-consumerist dystopia and media mirages, yet at the same yearning for freedom and struggling to become self-aware." - Keith Livers, Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s
"Khagi's outstanding new study provides a fresh and compelling approach to one of the most widely-read living Russian authors." - Eliot Borenstein, author of Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism
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