History Literature / GenerationP

* GratuitousLatin: In his first script Tatarsky used one Latin expression from his book of Latin catch phrases. To invoke that the confectionary enterprise of his client will survive the ecomonic instability. However his customer would soon be killed.

* MindScrew: [[NouveauRiche Media tycoon Berezovsky]] and [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Chechen terrorist Raduev]] are the characters in the videotape, cooked by the Azadovsky's agency on the script by Tatarsky and aimed to discrewdit both its heroes. In the record Berezovsky and Raduev talk about dividing the assets of the mother-Russia (including her oil wells and TV channels), which should further enrage the TV audience, for whom both these characters also served as a HateSink IRL [[note]](with much more reason in the case of Raduev as he was an obvious terrorist)[[/note]]. As this record is fabricated, the novel seems to imply that Berezovsky and Raduev are invented to misdirect the anger of the populace and do not really exist in-universe. But then Tatarsky is given two swell sums of money from two envelopes ostensibly sent to Morkovin by both Berezovsky and Raduev even though Tatarsky and Morkovin are still sure that both do not exist. In the end Morkovin once again invokes YouDoNotWantToKnow to Tatarsky.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Dmitry Pugin is described in the novel as a mustached man with buttins of eyes. He is played by the handsome actor Igor Mirkurbanov and lacks any mustache.

** Leonid Azadovsky confesses near the ending of the book that he was actually called Legion by his jerkass father. He disliked it until he learnt that he had been mentioned in the Bible (which actually made him a Louis Cypher). Still he also changed this name for the regular one, Leonid.

** Vladimir Tatarsky was named Vavilen in the Russian original (translated as Babylen). It was an acronym made by his father, formed from the names of the Soviet writer Vasily Aksenov and the politician [[UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin]]. ''By chance'' it sounded nearly identical to the name of the Mesopotamian metropolis Vavilon (Russian for Babylon). When Tatarsky applied for his first civil passport, he was still a minor received it as Babylen. However as soon as he turned 18, reaching majority, he lost his first passport, and he changed his name in the newly-received document to the regular Vladimir. But the Illuminati learnt of his actual given name. According to Khanin, it happened because Tatarsky himself shared this information with Pugin while drunk.

* BananaRepublic: Post-Soviet Russia according to Pelevin became exactly this in TheNineties. Aggravated by the fact that the country even cannot grow any bananas and has to import them... from Finland.

For God is with the righteous generation.

The film of the book lingered in the development hell for years until it was finished in 2011. All roles were performed by the memetic Rusian actors. Babylen Tatarsky was played by Vladimir Epifantsev of the notorious Film/TheGreenElephant fame. Sergei Shnurov, the vocalist of Music/{{Leningrad}}, played Guireev. Creator/VladimirMenshov played Farsuk Seiful-Farseykin.

* BananaRepublic: Post-Soviet Russia according to Pelevin became exactly this in TheNineties. Aggravated by the fact that the country even cannot grow any bananas and has to ship them from Finland.

** In his idyllic Soviet childhood Tatarsly drank only Pepsi because this corporation, unlike the Coca-cola company managed to break into the Soviet market, making a deal with the Soviet government who could arbitrarily give a pass into the Russia market to certain firms, excluding the others. Pelevin points out that Soviet children could not have a free choice between Pepsi-cola and Coca-Cola, like Soviet adults were not allowed to choose their leaders. Still pepsi tasted great in Tatarsky's childhood. "Generation Pepsi" has its source patrly in this.

** When Tatarsky first drinks the fly-agarics tee, prepared by Guireev, he soon starts hallucinating and speaks in spoonerisms. Later he mounts a ziggurat and hallucinates on its top level.

* PhoneyCall: Its version for the pager. When Tatarsky is at the meeting with his first client, Morkovin sends a message "welcome to route 666" to his pager. His colleague asks him, whether the message is from Video International (a big Russia advertising company). Tatarsky replies that he told those losers not to call him any more and this message is from Slava Zaytsev (most acclaimed Russia's couturier with a kitschy image) but they won't have meeting today because he's engaged now. Of course it is all a ruse to impress a client in the room.

* OneNationUnderCopyright: Quite probably under the Interbank Committee. The state agencies (including police and military) are nowhere to be seen, bar for the tanks on TV which shoot at the White House. The president and other statesmen '''are''' seen on TV, because the footage of them is produced in the Interbnk Committee, but do not exist in the real life. It appears that Russia is ruled by the media corporation headed by Azadovsky. He can administer justice, openly ordering the execution people who let him down. Even a huge real-life economic crisis is cause by the virus in the system Interbank Committee.