The action of the book “Journey to Eleusis” is based on Victor Pelevin’s earlier books “Transhumanism Inc.” It takes place in the world. (2021) and KGBT+ (2022). This is the third part of the series, but can also be read separately. The cover depicts warriors with pitchforks and shovels, carrying a golden helmet.
Victor Pelevin’s new book “Journey to Eleusis”
Publishing house “Eksmo”
On the back of the book, there is a Roman on Darth Vader’s helmet from the Star Wars movie saga and the content of the novel in the form of a hashtag. #ChapGTT, #UmaShovel, #Acheron, #ComradeGeyser, #Hegesius, #Persephone, #Eye of Brahma and others. The cover was provided to socialbites.ca by the Bookmate mobile book service.
What does “Journey to Eleusis” tell?
“The novel takes place in the Transhumanism INC universe. – a global corporation that owns underground storage facilities along with banks where the brains of dead people live. The service’s press service said that during Musk Night, all neural networks capable of independent thinking and self-learning (derived from the surname Elon Musk, Musk – English “musk”) were destroyed.
According to the summary, he is the security chief of Transhumanism INC. Admiral Bishop Lomas expects a real rebellion that will destroy everyone – “both the losers who live on the surface and the rich who move into underground cerebrocontainers.”
To prevent disaster, Lomas sends his best “can operator” to the field “ROMA-3”, a neural network simulation of third-century Rome for the company’s clients. The secret of the conspiracy is hidden there and is protected by the bloody and cruel Emperor Porfiry, the lord of Rome.
The novel is about the small Greek city of Eleusis, located 22 kilometers northwest of Athens and connected to the capital by a sacred road. It has long been famous for its wheat production, as well as the Eleusinian Mysteries – initiation ceremonies in the cults of the fertility goddesses Demeter and Persephone.
How to decipher a new novel
To better understand Pelevin’s new novel, Eksmo recommends reading the author’s previous books: “Empire V”, “Batman Apollo”, “iPhuck 10”, “Transhumanism inc” and “KGBT+”.
“We believe that the supports listed will tell you what the author really wants to say this year. If he wants to talk to us. It is clear what the new novel will be about: as always, it is about love,” the publishing house said.
They also advise readers to recall Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and Viktor Nabokov’s Lolita to more clearly grasp the mood of Journey to Eleusis.
past books
Since the beginning of the 2000s, Pelevin’s books have been published by the Eksmo publishing house: “Numbers”, “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf”, “Helmet of Terror: Creativity About Theseus and the Minotaur”, “Empire V”, “t” , “SNUFF”, “Batman” Apollo”, “Love for Three Zuckerbrins”, “The Doorman”, “The Lamp of Methuselah, or the Final Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons”, “iPhuck 10”, “Hidden Views of Mount Fuji”, “The Invincible Sun”, “Transhumanism A .S.” and “KGBT+”.
Olga Aminova, editor of Pelevin’s publishing house, admitted in an interview that, despite many years of cooperation, she had never seen him:
“We talk on the phone regularly, but I don’t know what number he called from or where this number is registered.”
In 2006, the publishing house published the novel Empire V, which was nominated for the Big Book Award. However, the text of the work was published on the Internet before its official publication – Eksmo stated that the work was stolen. Some critics considered this a marketing tactic.
Pelevin’s previous book “KGBT+” was published in Russia on September 29, 2022, and in July 2023 it became known that director Viktor Ginzburg started working on the adaptation of the author’s novel “SNUFF”.
Source: Gazeta
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