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   I come back to Victor Pelevin's novel «T». Here is one of reviews:

…The novel «Т» is the most uninteresting. Because the theme is internal, kitchen like, technological–... It is not interesting to readers, and to the author as well…
… . novel is  not so shameful. Even ion similar petty topic…
                                                                 Vadim Nesterov

And it is not petty topic at all. And the theme not so kitchen like. I consider, that in the novel «T» Victor Pelevin has created something equal to the epos Enuma Elish «First Time» of struggle against a primary evil.

   What is the creation of the world here? The fabric of the novel created by Pelevin. First time for the first order. That order which is not present but which should be.

   Who is God Marduk in this order of «First Time»? Count  «T»? Or writer Victor Pelevin? I think, soul. Soul is the main character of the novel «T». The major symbol of soul are clouds:

« Children think the God lives in clouds. And it is the naked truth. And here it is interesting, whether clouds think? Likely, if they have ideas the ideas are, absolutely short. And about the God in themselves they precisely do not think, because it is necessary to know too many words for this purpose... »              
                        (The termination of the novel of Victor Pelevin «T»)

    The soul struggles with Chaos. What is the Chaos in the novel «T»? It not characters of the novel. Chaos are the false philosophical concepts proving The soul its absence. The most terrible face of Chaos is a face of modern Russia. I tnink theme of Russia in Pelevin's novel «T» is one of the sickest for the writer.
   What is a victory here? Does it take place in the novel? Certainly, it does. The victory is inevitable here. Also it consists of two bound trunks. I shall name these trunks the culminations:
   The culmination the first and external … Or dynamic … It is penetration of the count «T» in the world of Ariel.  It is fight on the top circle, and the victory. Evidently it is effective. But there is still the second and internal culmination. Or semantic … To understand this culmination, it is necessary to see mantis, creeping out on last page.
   I think, that mantis is the internal and semantic culmination of the novel. Mantis is a victory, turned out to be defeat. As well as defeat turned out to be victory. If to return to our trunks … Mantis sits on the top of a trunk of searches on the largest peach. Also he looks at nowhere. Or just there, where count «T» has directed. In the termination of the beginning of searches. Or in the beginning of the termination. In the fog of fogs behind which – hope of hopes, or the sun of the suns are... One is clear: the ancient actor in the appearance of a dragon has escaped. Victor Pelevin has helped our boy to solve his problems.
    And I would like to address all musicians and artists, writers and poets … I appeal everyone to create his own First time struggle against Chaos to help to oneself and all people. I call to struggle together with that evil that has grasped Russia. The evil that has made disgraceful people the authority of Russia. Impudently stealing everything that belongs to people. Cutting down blue spruces on opening dawn of the areas of memory.  And, if you still doubt... Then read the novel «T» once again. The novel in the name of which the powerful back of Count Tolstoy is suddenly turnes out to be two trunks branching  on the top.
                                   (с)Leonid Shimko
 
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