Presentation on the Russian writer T N Tolstaya

Presentation on the Russian writer T. N. Tolstaya Автор : Mikhailov Ivan

Russian writer. Born May 3, 1951 in Leningrad. Father - philologist academician Nikita Tolstoy, grandparents - writer Alexei Tolstoy and Mikhail Lozinsky translator. In 1974 she graduated from the Department of Classical Philology of Leningrad State University, and then moved to Moscow. He worked at "Science" published by the main edition of the Eastern literature until 1983. TOLSTAYA TATYANA NIKITICHNA

Actively printed beginning at the Soviet power. The first publication - the story "On the golden porch sat. . . " appeared in the "Aurora" magazine in 1983. As a critic made its debut in the same year, an article entitled "glue and scissors. " In the mid-1980 s, he has written and published in the press about 20 stories (Fakir, Circle, Loss, dear Schur, Okkervil River, and others. ) And the novel "The Story. " In 1988, thirteen of them came out as a book, "On the golden porch sat”

Official criticism reacted to the prose of Tolstoy wary. Some accused her of "density" writing that "many in one sitting will not read. " Others, however, say that you have read the book avidly, but that all the works were written by the same scheme, artificially built. In intellectual circles of readers of that time enjoyed the reputation of the original thick, an independent writer. The heroes of her prose, basically - simple "Crank City" (old regime of the old woman, "genius" poets, demented childhood disabilities. . . ) living and dying in cruel and stupid middle-class environment.

The prose of Tolstoy, critics say, shows the influence of Shklovsky and Tynianov, on the one hand, and Remizov - on the other. It pushes words from different semantic layers of language, as a rule, look at their heroes "estrangement", unfolds the story like a cinematic frames. . . But if Shklovsky and Tynianov "redundant" words used to give the subject as precisely as possible, a comprehensive definition of and Remizov appeal to the archaic layers of language is approaching to the original meaning of the word, thick, using methods they have developed the paradoxical phrases, demonstrates that Vyach. Kuritsyn called "predatory cynicism eye estimation. " Andrey Nemzer said of her early stories, "" Aestheticism "Tolstoy was more important than the" moralism ". "

In 1990 he goes to teach Russian literature in the United States, where he spent several months in a year, almost all the subsequent decade. In 1991, the column is "Its bell tower" in the weekly "Moscow News", is part of the editorial board of the magazine "Capital". There are translations of her stories in English, German, French, Swedish and others. Languages.

In 1997 a separate book (you love - not love) in Moscow reissued her stories, in 1998 - the book sisters, co-written with his sister Natalia.

In 2000 -2001 there is a new novel by Tolstoy Kys - on mutating after a nuclear explosion in Russia. The country, according to the novel, is completely degraded: a language almost faded metropolis turned into a miserable village where people live by the rules of the game in the "cat and mouse". The novel is saturated with sarcasm, the heroes of the characters are arranged in a kind of gallery of freaks, their sexuality emphasized rough and primitive.

Russian-speaking critics reacted to the new Tolstoy differently. In the early 2000 s reissued her stories (river Okkervil, 2000, Night, 2001), a collection of "Sisters", is published in books, including works of Tatiana and Natalia Tolstoy (Day. Other, 2001), a collection of publicist Tatyana Tolstaya "Day". Private (2001) and her book Raisins (2002).

Reading Tolstoy also causes mixed reviews. In 2001 it receives the prize Thick XIV Moscow International Book Fair in the nomination "Prose", in the same year - the prestigious "Triumph".

Since 2002 he is a co-host (with scriptwriter Avdotya Smirnova) TV program "School for Zloslovie". Publications: On the Golden Porch sitting. Stories. Moscow, "Soviet writer", 1987; Do you love - not love. Stories. M. , "Olma-Press", 1997; Okkervil River. Stories. M. , "Horseshoe", 2000; Kys. Novel. "Horseshoe", 2000; "Foreigner", 2001; Night. Stories. M. , "Horseshoe", 2001; Private. M. , "Horseshoe", 2001.

Tatyana Tolstaya firmly and confidently takes its place on the Russian literary Olympus, as the main representative of contemporary postmodern poetics

Bibliography: Collections: On the porch sat a gold (1987) Do you like - not like (1997) Sisters(co-authored with Natalia Tolstoy)(1998) Okkervil River (1999) Two (co-authored with Natalia Tolstoy) ( 2001) Day. Personal (2001)

Night (2001) Raisins (2002) Circle (2003) White Wall (2004) Women's Day (2006) Not Kys (2007) The River (2007) Kys. Zverotur. Stories (2009) Roman: Kys (2000)

Creativity Tatyana Tolstaya often attributed to the genre of "women's" prose, along with women writers such as Victoria Tokarev, Lyudmila and Valery Petrushevskaya Narbikova Oia Guramovna Zumbulidze in his study, "" Women's prose "in the context of contemporary literature, " wrote that "the work of Tatyana Tolstaya is on a par with the spokesmen of the trends of modern Russian literature, which is in the synthesis of certain features of realism, modernism and postmodernism. "

Modernist tradition 1910 -1920 -ies. Russian classical tradition POETICS POSTMODERNISM The most important artistic techniques of postmodernism: the grotesque, irony, oxymoron. The most important sign: intertextuality, citationality. Objective: Heritage interpretation of the classics. Offer the reader to identify the plot moves, motifs, images, implicit and explicit reminiscences. 20