A Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P
Slavic Review 2025 Oliver Ledwith, Katerina Pavlidi, Nathan Smith
Abstract Victor Pelevin’s novel Generation P has attracted both popular and academic interest for its ability to capture the zeitgeist of Russia in the 1990s and a generation searching for a new identity in the ruins of the Soviet Union. However, one element has been largely ignored by scholars: the role of fungi and, specifically, the entheogenic mukhomor . Here we discuss the history of...