KION
Pelevin
Victor Pelevin is not just a fashionable writer, but the Sphinx and Castaneda of Russian literature. Huge circulations, reprints, awards, translations into other languages — there is no such bar that has not yet been submitted to Pelevin. But here's the paradox: his fame is thundering all over the country, and new novels are published every year, but the author himself seems to have ceased to exist. For 20 years, there has not been a single proof that Viktor Pelevin is in the same reality with us: no posts in social networks, no photos from random cameras, or even unsubstantiated confirmations from passers-by. Journalist Rodion Chepel organizes a large-scale investigation, calling for the help of childhood friends, eyewitnesses, biographers, editors, a unique archival chronicle and psychedelic animation to figure out how the most popular Russian author managed to erase his own identity.