"Viktor Pelevin. Generation P (fragment, англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

that gave a hint to so many miserable monkeys vegetating in Russia that
the time had come to board in Jeeps and to come to Man's daughters. It's
stupid to try to find the traces of anti-Russia conspiracy in this: this
conspiracy does exist obviously - the only problem is that the whole adult
population of Russia takes active part in it. Thus, Pepsi-Cola doesn't
have anything to do with it. That what happened was just a part of the
global process reflected in many books (it'd be enough to remember
"Waiting for the Monkeys" by Andrei Bitov or "The Brazzavile Beach" by
William Boyd). America wasn't passed by this process either, even if
everything happened differently there - Coca-Cola had pushed Pepsi from
the red game cell completely, finally and irreversibly, which event has
the same meaning for those who can understand as the Waterloo battle. That
was caused by activities of religious rightists who are especially strong
in the US. They don't recognize evolution; Coca-Cola fits better into
their vision of the world because the monkey that drinks it stays the
monkey. Though, we talk about monkeys for too long already, weren't we
going to look for a Human?

Vavilen Tatarsky was born long before this historical victory of red upon
red, that's why he'd became a member of Generation P automatically, even
if he didn't have any idea about it for a long time. If somebody would
tell him in those far away times that he'll become a copyrighter when he
grows up, he would be so surprised that would drop the bottle of
Pepsi-Cola right onto the hot pebbles of the Young Pioneer beach. In those
days kids were supposed to aspire towards the shining fireman's helmet or
the white robe of the doctor. Even the peaceful word "designer" seemed to
be the suspicious neologism that got into the great Russian language due
to some oddity, until the first serious worsening of international
situation.
But in general, there was enough suspicious and odd in lives and language
in those days. Take the name "Vavilen" itself, for instance, with which
Tatarsky was awarded by his father who combined the faith in communism and
the 60s generation's ideals in his soul. The name was combined of the
words "Vasily Aksenov" "a dissident writer, was exiled from USSR, lives in
the US" and "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin". It seemed that Tatarsky the Senior
could easily imagine the faithful leninist who, while reading the liberal
Aksenov's text, gratefully understands that Marxism in fact supported free
love initially; or some kind of aesthete, crazy about Jazz who might
suddenly realize that the communism will be victorious after some
especially long saxophone's roulade. It was not just Tatarsky's father
though - the whole Soviet generation of 50s and 60s was like this, the
generation that brought the amateur songwriting into the world and had cum
into the blackish void of space with the first satellite - the four tailed
spermatozoon of the future that wasn't destined to happen.
Tatarsky was very shy of his name, introducing himself as Vova "Vladimir"
any time he had a chance. Then he began to lie to his friends that his
father called him like this because he was a fan of the Eastern mysticism
and meant the ancient city of Babylon which secret doctrine will be
inherited by him, Vavilen. As for the Lenin/Aksenov mixture, it was
created by his father because he was a follower of manicheism (SP???) and