Yevgeni Anatolyevich Popov

Jevgeni Popov

Yevgeni Anatolyevich Popov (Евгений Анатольевич Попов) (born Krasnoyarsk, 1946) is a Russian writer, best known for short stories. He trained as a geologist, but from 1975 supported himself in Moscow in order to write.

His involvement in the Metropol Affair in 1979 - a publishing venture by independent minded writers that attempted to circumvent Soviet censorship - meant he was unable to publish in Russia until Glasnost in 1986. His stories began to be published in large numbers in the 1990s; he has also written numerous novels considered in the metafiction tradition. He makes use of elements of fairy tale construction and literary parody.

Since the early 2000s he has been an active internet blogger on Live Journal and a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin's government.

Bibliography

Novels

• Dusha patriota, ili razlichnye poslaniia Ferfichkinu (The Soul of the Patriot) [1989]. Moscow: Tekst, 1985. Translated into English as The Soul of a Patriot or Various Epistles to Ferfichkin, trans. Robert Porter (Harvill: London, 1994).
• Prekrasnost’ zhizni. Glavy iz ‘romana s gazetoi’, kotoryi nikogda ne budet nachat i zakonchen (The Splendour of Life. Chapters from a 'love-affair with a newspaper' which will never be started or finished) (Moscow: Rabochii, 1990).
• Nakanune nakanune (On the Eve of the Eve), Volga, 4 (1993), 3-62.
• Podlinnaia istoriia "zelenikh muzykantov", roman-kommentarii (The Real Story of the 'Green Musicians: a Novel-Commentary) [Znamia, 6 (1998), 10-110], (Moscow: Vagrius, 1999).
• Master Khaos. Otkrytaia mul’tiagentnaia literaturnaia sistema s poslesloviem uchënogo cheloveka, (Master Chaos. An open multi-agent literary system with a postscript by a scholarly person) Oktiabr’, 4 (2002), 3-111.
• Arbeit. Shirokoe polotno (Arbeit: A Broad Canvas) (Moscow: Astrel', 2012).

Short Story Collections

• Veselie Rusi (Merry-making in Old Russia) (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1981).
• Zhdu liubvi ne verolomnoi (I Await a Love That's True)(Moscow: Sovetskií Pisatel’, 1989).
• Samolët na Kël’n (The Plane to Cologne) (Moscow: Orbita, 1991).

References

• Marina Kanevskaya, ‘The Diary of a Writer from Tëplyi Stan’: The Beautifulness of Life by Evgenii Popov’, Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style, eds., Marina Balina, Nancy Condee, Evgeny Dobrenko, (Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 2000),193-210.
• Sally Laird, Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers, (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
• Mark Lipovetsky, ‘Self-Portrait on a Timeless Background: Transformations of the Autobiographical Mode in Russian Postmodernism’, trans. Diana Goldstaub, A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, 11 (2), (1996), pp. 140-62
• Ingunn Lunde, ‘Footnotes of a Graphomaniac: The Language Question in Evgenii Popov’s The True Story of “The Green Musicians”’, Russian Review 68 (1) (2009), 70-88.
• Jeremy Morris, Mastering Chaos: the Metafictional Worlds of Evgeny Popov, (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013).
• Robert Porter, ‘Evgeny Popov’, Russia’s Alternative Prose, (Oxford/Providence, USA: Berg, 1994), 88-137.
• Anatoly Vishevsky, 'Creating a Shattered World: Toward the Poetics of Yevgeny Popov', World Literature Today, Vol. 67, 1993, 119-124.