Schemat i niezwykłość w strukturze świata. „Życie owadów” Wiktora Pielewina

Abstract

In Victor Pelevin’s novel “The Life of Insects” – as the author of this article maintains – emerges a specific reality: the area of play, which comes into existence at the borderline between three interfering aspects: realistic, fantastic and allegorical. This area’s characteristic contains: endless expanding of signification process, relativity, cognitive uncertainty, ontological indeterminism, hybrid composition of man and world, essential mechanism of demythologizing. In the center of the collision of scheme and uncommonness we can find characters’ activities, which seem to be embraced by conventional plots, but remain uncommon due to characters’ fantastic features. Pelevin’s characters are multidimensional, but – ultimately – they are subordinates of the text’s playful strategy. The way the meaning structures are raised in Pelevin’s novel deprives a reader of possibility of securing firm sense (a clear world-view) during reading matter, and condemns him/her to endless interpretation marked by hesitation.