Буддизм и платонизм в интертекстуальном поле романа В. Пелевина «Любовь к трем цукербринам»

Abstract

The paper is devoted to understanding the role of the ideas of Buddhism and Platonism in the intertextual space of V. Pelevin’s novel, given that throughout his entire writing career, the prose writer plays with elements of various cultural systems, including philosophical systems. The aim of the paper is to determine the features of the religious and philosophical context of V. Pelevin’s creative work in the 2010s using the novel “Love for Three Zuckerbrins”. The study focuses on the intertextual connections of Pelevin’s prose with the philosophy of Plato (in particular, his doctrine of ideas) and the religious concepts of Buddhism (in an eclectic combination of its various schools and teachings). The paper is original in that it is the first to identify the synthesis of the philosophical thought of the West and the East in V. Pelevin’s novel “Love for Three Zuckerbrins”. As a result of the study, it has been found that, firstly, the appearance of ideas and images of Plato’s philosophy in the novel “Love for Three Zuckerbrins” reflects a change in the vector and the complication of the author’s worldview system; secondly, Plato’s allegory of the cave, idea of the Cosmos are synthesised with the Buddhist motifs of sleep and emptiness and are aimed at creating the Multiverse.