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Victor Pelevin - OMON

What begins realistically - to be a cosmonaut to work towards the future goal of the moon with a childhood description, which is then increasingly surreal. Starting from a simple amputation of the legs in the flight school, got into Omon. Further into the secret cosmonaut troop, whose secret is that all Raumfahrt-/Militärtechnik is only apparent and actually automatically always a man hiding in robotics. As such, Omon goes on a journey of no return on the back of the moon around the Lenin column to explore. At the finish, after all the others, he realizes that he is in an underground tunnel and can only flee out of that.
interest begins with the childhood dream of the vastness of the universe, the Wahrwerdung this dream is associated with a change for the surreal - the dream shifted to a certain extent to the outside. The more he does but, the reality is fragile and bursts at the target, the actually intended for him a hero on the back of the moon. Even the trip there, with each stage of the rocket can say goodbye to a comrade, breaks away a piece of the old away. Just as with the person, Omon is also the spacecraft then Omon Ra of his childhood dream to loss of the space dream goes, so does the dream seems from socialism in the Soviet Union to disintegrate under the arms race and the space race - in the end is it so far just that only the facade remains, in retrospect, so it makes the system as a kind of gutted dar. Very nice also the close link between childhood and unrealized dreams when Omon enters his Lunochod the pedals and see a child on a bike and feel . Always inserts some amusing, as when told by a "Marxist theory of the Moon" or fictitious Lenin's writings is referenced as "moon and mutiny" and "The councils of the satellite. And allusions are many more ...


(14 [empty bottles], 31 [true men] and 33 [gagged], [sacrifice of life] 42, 55 [nuclear weapons], 63 [Ra], 65 [Marxist theory of the moon], 75 [ Christians], 86 [of the steel penis]] 87 [standard meal; dream 94f [the moon], 97 [stars are subject to laws], 110 [so far away to be] is surreal; 145 [Lenin] ubiquitous win 149 [Individuality ])