{"id":506,"date":"2013-03-20T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prosefest.rs\/?p=506"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:50:46","slug":"alexander-alexandrovich-genis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/2009\/alexander-alexandrovich-genis\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Alexandrovich Genis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alexander<\/a>Writer, critic. He was born on 11th<\/sup> February 1953 in Ryazan, but grew up in Riga. After graduating from the Faculty of Philology of the Latvian University in 1976, he moved to the USA, living in New York since 1977. He has worked for Russian emigrants\u2019 magazines (\u2019New American\u2019 and others). His works have been published in Russia since 1989, and he has been contributing to Radio Freedom (as a commenter and the author of weekly shows for the \u2019Beyond Barriers\u2019 series). He is the author and host of the personal column for the \u2019New Gazette\u2019 and a permanent column in \u2019Esquire\u2019 magazine. He is a member of the Editorial Board of \u2019Foreign Literature\u2019 magazine and a member of the Booker Award Jury (1993), as well as a member of the Academy of the Philological Sciences of the Russian Federation, the laureate of the \u2019Star\u2019 magazine award (1997), etc.<\/p>\n

With P. Vail Alexander Genis co-authored six titles: Contemporary Russian Prose<\/i><\/b>, Mother Tongue<\/i><\/b> (after the recommendation of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation), Russian Cuisine in Exile<\/i><\/b>, The 1960s. The World of Soviet Man<\/i><\/b>, etc.<\/p>\n

Since 1990 he has been working alone. The titles American Alphabet<\/i><\/b>, The Tower of Babel<\/i><\/b>, Ivan Petrovich Has Died<\/i><\/b>, Darkness and Silence<\/i><\/b>, Landscapes<\/i><\/b>, Clothing<\/i><\/b> and others have been published as a three-volume edition of collected works Culturology. Research. Personal<\/i><\/b> (2002, 2003). In 2004 he published the collection of essays Sweet Life<\/i><\/b> (Vagrius<\/i><\/b>), and in 2006 \u2013 a book of culinary voyages Kolobok<\/i><\/b>[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> (AST), 2008 \u2013 the book The Zen of Football and Other Stories<\/i><\/b> (AST) and the volume Six Fingers<\/i><\/b> (KoLibri<\/i><\/b>). The collection of philological prose Special Case<\/i><\/b> and album Fantiki<\/i><\/b> are currently being prepared for print (AST).<\/p>\n

Since 2004 he has been writing a permanent column for the \u2019New Gazette\u2019.<\/p>\n

Alexander Genis is the author of the text for the documentary film about the Ukrainian Revolution (\u2019Orange Winter\u2019, directed by A. Zagdansky).<\/p>\n

His works have been translated into English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Serbian, Hungarian, Latvian and other languages.<\/p>\n

Credo<\/p>\n

The miracle of literature lies in the fact that it is capable of delivering that inexplicable, inseparable and essential part of a human being to the reader; the part which distinguishes one author from the other. Having exhausted one\u2019s curiosity with abstractions, we are not interested in a group of ideas, equal as cards in a deck, but the uniqueness of their sequence, the pattern, which has emerged in the marvellous arrangement of general ideas in a consciousness. Book is a proof which leads literature to its culprit. In a book, the readers search for clues left by the author. It is characterised by authenticity which reveals the presence of reality, yet not reality itself. The clue only indicates that reality has been here. As everybody knows, literature is capable of repetition. What is unique, basically, is the soul residing between the body and the text.<\/p>\n

Alexander Genis<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> Kolobok \u2013 small round bread in folk fairy tales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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