Chapaev and Void. Polevin V.O.

The novel “Chapaev and Emptiness” the author himself characterizes this: “This is the first work in world literature, the action of which takes place in an 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 a 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 Roman in Russian literature. "