Oil in V. Pelevin's - I: Generation П
The article is part of a study on the development of the concept of oil in the works of V. Pelevin. In the novel Generation П oil is conceptualized mainly as a hybrid of an oil rig and a theo-anthropomorphic statue. Sources of conceptualization are technical and technological data on oil, its economic and political role in the world, history and mythology of the Middle East. Oil, according to V. Pelevin, includes such basic features as power, subjectivity, punishment, death, infernality, narcotic, etc.