Stories

5 hrs. 31 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Yuriy Mamleyev

Narrator Alexey Kazakov

Description

Born in Moscow into a family of a psychiatrist. He graduated from a forestry-technical institute; until 1974 he taught mathematics in schools for working youth. As noted by V. Kozak, “Mamlеev’s true life unfolded underground.” Since 1953 he studied Indian philosophy, эзotericism, and occultism, writing more than a hundred works that, of course, could not be published in his home country at the time. In 1974, Mamlеev emigrated, lived in the United States until 1983, and then moved to France. His works were published in M. Shemyakin’s almanac “Apollo 77,” and in journals “Gnosis” and “Echo.” In 1980, after the release in the US of the collection “Heaven Above Hell,” Mamlеev was admitted to the PEN Club. In the late 1980s Mamlеev’s novels “The Moscow Gambit” (about Moscow esoteric circles of the 1960s) and “Runaways” were published. In 1994, Mamlеev returned to Russia. The well-known Russian “esoteric conceptualist” Aleksandr Dugin said the following about Mamlеev: “Yuri Vitalyevich Mamlеev is not quite a writer; calling his works literature doesn’t fit. But he is not a philosopher either. Somewhere in the middle—where artistry spits on style, and speculation knows no strictness.”

Contents

Part 1
1. A Wild Story
2. A Lesson
3. Currency
4. A Love Story

Part 2
1. A FLIGHT
2. DEATH NEAR US (Notes of a Not-Nice Man)
3. THE LAST SIGN OF SPINOZA
4. ABOUT THE WONDERFUL

Part 3
1. A Little Round Thing, or the Goddess of Corpses
2. It
3. Three
4. One
5. I’ll Be Satisfied!
6. Living Death
7. Petrova

Part 4
1. The Mentally Ill of the Future
2. A Black Mirror
3. A Fighter for Happiness
4. Tenderness
5. A Face
6. A Thoughtful Killer
7. Salmon
8. Carol
9. An Incident
10. Disappearance
11. An Ordinary Person
12. Fidelity to Dead Maidens
13. A Date