Reading the “Book of Books” by Sergei Polotovsky and Kozak’s novel “Pelevin and Generation of the Void”-reading is sad. Before us is a biography of Pelevin, written in the style of a partly cultural essay, partly - a portrait of a pop star for an advanced, with attempts for the creative of a glamorous publication. Biographical data are reported, phrases from rare interviews of the writer are given, from the stories of acquaintances and colleagues, books are presented.

What to do to a person if he is by the will of circumstances, even if voluntarily chosen, is forced to go from his, reliably inhabited and understandable, country - to some completely different, alien and barely understandable? Yes, even in one who, having survived a few years ago, one of the greatest fractures in her history - and he himself does not yet know how to understand herself and what to do with herself?