Controversial Russian author is at last published by most respectable
publishing house in Moscow.
“Chtob Znali!” (“Let It Be Known!”) by Mikhail Armalinsky.
Moscow, “Ladomir”, 2002, 861 pages; ISBN 5-86218-379-5
(the volume includes: the novel, short stories, essays and poems)
Here are some excerpts from the translation of the Preface to this
edition. Complete English translation you can read at: http://
www.mipco.com/english/introVozn.html or in Russian at: http://
www.mipco.com/win/Vozdvizhenskaya.html
The Copulation of Leningrad with Minneapolis,
or the Overcoming of Discordances
(About the Writings of Mikhail Armalinsky)
by: Olga Vozdvizhenskaya, Moscow
...for the first time in series “Russian Forbidden Literature” are
included texts, issued forth from the pen... of this living and very
actively working author.
Particular scandalous fame came to M. Armalinsky when he
published in 1986 the "Secret Journal of A.S. Pushkin." translated now
into 22 languages.
...the Russian native literary environment did not allow the creation of
an indigenous Marquis de Sade, nor a Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,
nor exquisite dames like Anais Nin or Emmanuel Arsant. And so it is
that this cultural gap has now been filled by none other than this very
Mikhail Armalinsky. Tirelessly, in poetry and in prose, and beyond the
canons of any literary schools, not following anyone and soliciting no
followers, he instills into his readers’ minds his theme, his views, and
his convictions, which carry for him the power of commandments.
...The emotional spectrum of Armalinsky’s writing is generally wide:
from a detailed description of everyday life in “The Hero” to a
philosophical contemplation of “what a person thinks about in the
minute…the day…the year…the life of his death;” from the fantasy of
“Light in the Window” and “Self-excavations” to the smashing sarcasm
of “The Tale About Russian-French Connections.”...
The exquisite analysis of a detached researcher combines in
Armalinsky’s work with the subjectivity of a personally involved
participant...
This writer has also taken on the thankless role of Russian erotic
annalist. Keeping in mind that Russian literature has always been
social, communal, ideological, manifesto-like in nature, Armalinsky...
has become the slapper-in-the-face and spitter-in-the-eye of current
social morality.
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