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Empire V

by Victor Pelevin · first published 2006

Empire V (Russian: «Ампир В. Повесть о настоящем сверхчеловеке») is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2006. The title is a wordplay. The word Empire in the original title in Russian stands for Empire style (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃.piːʁ]), which is in Russian is written the way matching the French pronunciation (ампир), rather than the translation of the word empire in the sense "a powerful state or a gang", which is империя. The letter V is a Roman numeral.

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