Boris Ryzhy: Dyviy Kamen

9 hrs. 23 min.

Language Russian

Author Ilya Falikov

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

The poetry of Boris Ryzhy (1974–2001) burst into literature at the turn of the 20th century with an unexpected flare of brilliant talent. A young man from the Urals amazed connoisseurs of refined language with the freshness of his words, the musicality of his verse, and rare mastery—combining rich inner culture with the natural language of the environment his muse spoke from: the outskirts of Yekaterinburg. He brought a new hero—the young man of the unforgettable 1990s, “where our lives are kept, in the blue album: the street scum of the earth—gangsters and poets.” After Boris Ryzhy’s early, far too early departure, two labels were immediately attached to him: “the last Soviet poet” and “the first poet of the generation.” Is it true? Ilya Falikov, a well-known poet who at one time took part in the hero’s fate from the book, does not seek a detached narrative about the poet’s life and death. Like many characters in biographies, he enters into a dialogue with Boris Ryzhy and offers his own view of this poetic phenomenon at the turn of the millennium. A blend of travel notes, historical digressions, personal recollections, critical reviews, conversations with the poet’s family and close people, the breadth of quotations, and the multifaceted cast of people involved in Boris Ryzhy’s fast-flying life—this is what makes up the book, and it is unlikely to leave a reader sensitive to poetry indifferent.