Vladimir Makanin

Vladimir Semenovich Makanin (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Маканин; born March 13, 1937 in Orsk ) is a Russian writer.

Life

Makanin has published poetry, novels and short stories. Until 1965 he was a mathematician and filmmaker. After that, he took courses for screenwriter and worked as an editor in the publishing Sowjetski pissatel ( The Soviet writer ). Since the end of the 1960s lives and Makanin works as a freelance writer in the Soviet Union and later Russia. He belongs to the so-called " Moscow school ", the sharply demarcated by a sober view of the grotesque everyday life and psychological consequences of the official Soviet artistic doctrine of Socialist Realism.

His published works in German to describe the panorama of Russian society in transition after the end of the Soviet Union.

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Underground

The internationally successful and award-winning book Underground or A Hero of Our Time 1998 is about a homeless writer who is faced brutal with poverty and despotism in Moscow during the 1990s and, unlike other dissidents his ideals not to the corrupt " new elite " ( see also oligarchs ) has sold. The misery of lack of space, alcoholism, violence, the deterioration of social relations and personal tragedies drive the protagonists in a cruel odyssey. The novel is written with numerous references to the Russian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as borrowings from Dante, Homer, Joyce, Heidegger, Plato and Kafka. The title of the novel is composed of the two book titles records from the underground (1864 ) Dostoevsky and A Hero of Our Time ( 1840) by Lermontov.

Works

  • Petrol King, from the Russian by Annelore Nitschke, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-630-87318-3 ( Original title: Asan, 2008)
  • The shock of the Satyr at the sight of the nymph (2008). ISBN 978-3-630-87253-7
  • The Caucasian Prisoner - Three Stories ( 2005). ISBN 3-630-87155-0
  • Underground or A Hero of Our Time ( 2003) - novel. ISBN 3-442-73351-0
  • Two Solitudes (1995 )
  • The Way (1993 )
  • The Latecomers (1992 )
  • Moscow 1985 (1991)
  • People images ( 1991)
  • The loophole (1991 )
  • Loss ( 1989)
  • Voices ( 1989)
  • Beautiful girl with gray eyes (1989 )
  • The chase (1987 )
  • The Runaway (1987 )
  • The Man with Two Faces (1986 )
  • The Miracle Doctor "(1986)
  • The miracle worker (1984 )
  • Voices ( 1983)
  • Old books or the Portrait of a Young Woman ( 1979)

Not yet been published in German:

  • The straight line - Roman ( 1965)
Russian Booker Prize Dante Alighieri Notes from Underground Mikhail Lermontov Integrated Authority File
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