Omon Ra

4 hrs. 17 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Viktor Pelevin

Narrator Mikhail Gorevoy

Description

One of Victor Pelevin’s earliest and most vivid novels, “Omon Ra,” is a parody of educational and patriotic works of the Soviet era and reveals numerous allusions to both the history of astronautics and the system of priorities and values of Soviet society. The novel’s plot is built around preparing Soviet cosmonauts for a flight to the Moon. As Pelevin himself admitted, the book uses the allegorical idea of “tonal,” which symbolically denotes the totalitarian command-and-administrative, deceptive-propagandistic communist society of self-sacrifice. The book is dedicated to the “Heroes of Soviet Space”—but not to the widely celebrated official cosmonauts, rather to unknown rank-and-file members of the secretive “Soviet space.”