Yuri Mamleev
Yuri Vitalyevich Mamleev, also Mamleyev or Mamleiev (Russian: Юрий Витальевич Мамлеев, 11 December 1931 – 25 October 2015), was a prominent Russian novelist who began writing in the 1960s and won the Pushkin Prize in 2000.[1] He is considered the founder of metaphysical realism as a literary genre.[2] His best known work, The Sublimes (Russian: Шатуны), was a samizdat novel published in 1966 and translated into English in 2014 by Marian Schwartz.[3] IN 1974, he left the USSR and emigrated to the United States where he taught at Cornell University until the fall of the Soviet Union. Post dissolution, he returned to Moscow where he continued to live and write until his death in 2015.
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Born | Moscow, USSR | 11 December 1931
Died | 25 October 2015 83) Moscow, Russia | (aged
Genre | Metaphysical realism |
Notable works | The Sublimes (1966)
The Fate of the Existence Eternal Russia |
Mamleyev was also well known as the founder of the Yuzhinsky Circle, an occultist samizdat literary salon based out of his shared apartment on Yuzhinsky Lane in central Moscow. The illegal literary salon attracted many non-conformist and anti-Soviet artists, writers, intellectuals, and poets, including Aleksandr Dugin, Yevgeny Golovin, and Geydar Dzhemal.[4]
References
- Publications, Europa Europa (2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. p. 1020. ISBN 978-1-85743-269-5.
- Radaeva, Ella (2021-02-26). "Expressionist Motives in the Work of Yuri Mamleev". Proceedings of the conference on current problems of our time: The relationship of man and society (CPT 2020). Vol. 531. Atlantis Press. pp. 11–14. doi:10.2991/assehr.k.210225.003. ISBN 978-94-6239-342-4. S2CID 233963213.
- "Yuri Mamleyev". B O D Y. 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- Shekhovtsov, Anton (2008-11-14). "The Palingenetic Thrust of Russian Neo‐Eurasianism: Ideas of Rebirth in Aleksandr Dugin's Worldview1". Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 9 (4): 491–506. doi:10.1080/14690760802436142. ISSN 1469-0764. S2CID 144301027.