Iurii Buida

Oliver Ready (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 1954
Activity 1991-ongoing

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Buida's Works

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Over the past two decades Iurii Buida has established himself as a leading name in contemporary Russian prose, especially in the shorter genres of the story and the novella. His prolific output during this period includes a long phantasmagorical novel devoted to national history and myth,

Boris i Gleb

[

Boris and Gleb

, 1997] and two shorter novels that narrate the improbable lives of Russian émigrés in Italy and France and engage in polemical dialogue with the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov:

Ermo

[

Ermo

, 1996] and

Tret’e serdtse

[

The Third Heart

, 2008]. Buida has also published a playful volume of literary criticism, essays and scattered thoughts in the tradition of Vasilii Rozanov and Andrei Siniavsky,

Zheltyi dom

[

The Yellow House

, 2001]. There is little doubt, however, that his most…

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Citation: Ready, Oliver. "Iurii Buida". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 April 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12615, accessed 25 November 2024.]