The Life of Alexander Zilber

Yuri Karabchievskii

1975

He and I rarely spoke of God. He didn’t want to listen to another one of my blasphemous speeches, and I knew it was like talking to a brick wall—you could never convince him of anything.

But once—by then I was a full-grown dummy—I flew into his room in a celebratory mood. I had come up with the decisive argument, which I tended to use if not to…

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Yuri Karabchievskii

1938–1992

Yuri Karabchievskii was a Russian writer, poet, and literary critic. Until 1988 he worked as a factory technician in Moscow and published his works abroad, earning him a reputation as a leading Soviet dissident intellectual. His most famous work of this period was the “philological novel” Resurrection of Mayakovsky. With the liberalization of the Soviet policy under Gorbachev, Karabchievskii’s fiction and essays began to appear in prominent Russian magazines, but the growth of his popularity was cut by his untimely death in 1992.

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