Venedikt Erofeev

Svetlana McMillin (University College London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
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 24 Oct 1938
Died 11 May 1990
Activity 1958-1990

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

Erofeev's Works

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At the beginning of 1970, a small literary work named

Moskva – Petushki

(in English translations,

Moscow to the End of the Line,

N.Y.: Taplinger, 1980;

Moscow Circles,

London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1981;

Moscow Stations,

London: Faber & Faber in association with Brian Bolly, 1997) appeared in Samizdat, the clandestine circulation of typed manuscripts and books forbidden by the Soviet censorship. Venedikt Erofeev, an unknown writer, was announced on the title page of this new manuscript. As this name coincided with the name of the book’s hero, many readers thought about a pen name or some sort of a mystification. A “poem”, as Erofeev defined the genre of his prose work, made an astonishing impression on all who could access it, mainly the intellectual circles…

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Citation: McMillin, Svetlana. "Venedikt Erofeev". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 April 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5597, accessed 23 November 2024.]