Logo of the Pelevin site in questionBlogging on "live literature" and reading Henrike's comments to my post, I was reminded of another phenomenon worth exploring: audio books read by someone else than the writer. What type of cultural phenomenon is that? How does the experience of listening to a third party reading an author's work to us alter our perception of written texts? My Norwegian colleague Martin Paulsen recently attended me to the Pelevin audio files on this Pelevin-devoted site, some of which are brought to us with additional - new-ageish or techno - sound effects. Consider this illustrative example - one which makes me wonder: with what type of creative product are we dealing here? The Pelevin-mp3 files are made by different parties, several of which appear to be readers who simply enjoy turning their favorite narratives into acoustic files. Does that mark their creations as literature with disco effects? Musical compositions, or soundscapes rather? Or are we looking at an audio-oriented form of fan fiction?ER