WEREWOLF AS A TYPE OF REPRESENTATION OF THE OTHER BY VICTOR PELEVIN
This article is devoted to a peculiar kind of representation of the Self as the Other in Victor Pelevin’s texts, namely transformation into an animal, or lycanthropy. The analysis is based on his early short story A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia , which is probably the most indicative for studying of lycanthropy in Pelevin’s works. The article examines a common Pelevin’s narrative scheme describing the change of bodily experience and worldview of a human turning into the werewolf. Thereby the human person gains a qualitatively new understanding of him/herself unobtainable in his/her “usual” human state. The article also compares Pelevin’s narrative scheme with the other one from Vassily Sigarev’s film Volchok . Both schemes are quite similar; it means that this way of representation is not just Pelevin’s peculiarity