Victor Pelevin

Victor Olegovich Pelevin (Russian: Виктор Олегович Пелевин, born 22 November 1962 in Moscow) is a Russian fiction writer.

Quotes

• Никаких философских проблем нет, есть только анфилада лингвистических тупиков, вызванных неспособностью языка отразить Истину.
  • There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.
  • The Sacred Book of the Werewolf [Священная Книга Оборотня], p. 226. (2004, translated by Andrew Bromfield in 2008)

• In Russia, history is something that, you know, used to be rewritten every five years. It's written once again, and it's just a game.
  • Victor Pelevin, in an interview with Clark Blaise at the University of Iowa, 1996.