Blue Lantern (Russian: «Синий фонарь») is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991.

The synthesis of the light coming from the electric light-the "blue lantern" - and from the moonlight brings to the story an element of mystery characteristic of postmodernism.

[6] After one of the stories, the youngest in the group, Kolya, confusing play with reality, runs to the teacher in terror.

Reality triumphs over the mystical, but the "eternal questions" (who we are, where we come from... where is the difference between life and death, who has the right to consider himself truly alive) remain unanswered (in the tradition of Russian classical literature)".

It is as if Pelevin is playing with the reader in Postmodernist games, riddles, creating additional difficulties for the perception and interpretation of the test.