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Victor Pelevin: The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Pelevin was satirizing 90s' Russia and its emerging capitalist culture and his critiques still stand, because Putin's Russia is just less fucked up version of 90s' Russia. Trying to reduce his works to "satires of authoritarianism" is extreme cherry-picking.