Personalities: Among Contemporaries
8 hrs. 34 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexander Genis
Author
Alexander Genis
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Description
The book “Profiles: Among Contemporaries” introduces readers to the circle of Alexander Genis—his friends and colleagues, who included Third Wave émigrés and outstanding writers.
The work is written in Genis’s unique authorial genre, “the hero and the surroundings,” and it vividly and accurately portrays significant figures of literature: their writing style and way of life.
In his new book (including “The Kama Sutra of a Bookman,” “The Return Address,” and “Games with Beads”), created in the genre “the hero and the surroundings,” Genis skillfully combines portraits, detailed analysis, and vivid recollections. He presents a gallery of remarkable contemporaries who formed his circle. Among them were leading writers and poets of the Third Wave—Sinyavsky, Brodsky—as well as the author’s closest friends: Dovlatov, Bakhchanyan, Losev, and many other figures from the literary scene.
The work is written in Genis’s unique authorial genre, “the hero and the surroundings,” and it vividly and accurately portrays significant figures of literature: their writing style and way of life.
In his new book (including “The Kama Sutra of a Bookman,” “The Return Address,” and “Games with Beads”), created in the genre “the hero and the surroundings,” Genis skillfully combines portraits, detailed analysis, and vivid recollections. He presents a gallery of remarkable contemporaries who formed his circle. Among them were leading writers and poets of the Third Wave—Sinyavsky, Brodsky—as well as the author’s closest friends: Dovlatov, Bakhchanyan, Losev, and many other figures from the literary scene.
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