Chapaev and emptiness

The author characterizes the novel "Chapaev and Emptiness:" This is the first work in world literature, the action of which takes place in absolute void. In fact, it takes place in 1919 in the Chapaev division, in which the main character, the poet student Peter the Emptiness, serves as a commissar. And also these days. And also, as always with Pelevin, in the virtual space, where Kawabata, Schwarzenegger, "just Mary" are found with the main character ...
According to critics, Chapaev and Emptiness is "the first serious Zen-Buddhist novel in Russian literature."
According to the famous critic of Vasily Vladimirsky, this novel is part of the gold collection of the early prose of Pelevin.
- In 2001, "Chapaev and Void" in English translation under the heading "The Clay Machine-Gun" (clay machine gun) reached the finals of the Dublin Literary Prize.
- For 19 years, the theater production of Chapaev and the Void "directed by Pavel Ursul with Mikhail Efremov, Mikhail Polisomako, Mikhail Krylov and