“Relics. Early and Unpublished” is a collection of the author’s early works. Pelevin, as always, is original - not only in his work, but also in his presentation to the reader: the content of the book repeats the chronology of events that happened in Russia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

We have moved enough away from the nineties to see them without the effect “face to face you can’t see the face.” That’s why these days there are meditation films like “Zhid’s Bluff.” Relics are a kind of “blind man’s buff”, a nostalgic memory of the time of crimson jackets in the harsh era of orange ties. The book is compiled in such a way that its content roughly corresponds to the chronology of events: how we arrived there (several very early stories are included for this purpose), what we got into and where we went after that...

These texts were not “on the table” “- they were published in magazines and newspapers, but most of them were not published in book format. Many are wandering around the Internet in a mutilated form; it is better to finally publish them in a humane way. In addition, there are essays that were not published in Russia. And I borrowed the title from my favorite Pink Floyd record. V.O. Pelevin The collection includes the following works:

• Psychic attack sonnet

• The sorcerer Ignat and the people

• USSR Taishou Zhuan

• Life and adventures of barn number XII

• Water tower

• Middlegame

• Music from the pillar

• Kreger's Revelation

• Weapons of Retribution

• Tambourine of the Lower World

• A Brief History of Paintball in Moscow

• Lower Tundra

• Yuletide cyberpunk, or Christmas night-117.DIR

• Time out

• Greek version

• Who by fire

• Ixtlan - Cockerels

• State Emergency Committee as a Tetragrammaton

• Zombification Experience of comparative anthropology

• John Fowles and the tragedy of Russian liberalism< /p>

• The names of the oligarchs on the map of the Motherland

• The bridge that I wanted to cross