Resisting Marginality: A Reading and Conversation by Aleksandr Il’ianen and Ivan Sokolov скачать в хорошем качестве

Resisting Marginality: A Reading and Conversation by Aleksandr Il’ianen and Ivan Sokolov

Александр Ильянен / Иван Соколов “To be a marginal writer is to be a people’s writer.” Russian writer, winner of the Andrei Bely Prize, and bohemian Aleksandr Il’ianen reads from his legendary novel And the Finn (1989) and talks about his experience as a queer army officer and foreign-language translator in and out of post-socialist St. Petersburg. The talk and the reading are interpreted into English by Ivan Sokolov, a Bay Area-based poet from Petersburg and scholar of Il’ianen’s work. Sokolov also reads some poems from his ongoing manuscript Liberation Chronicles. A Q&A with both authors follows. Sponsored by the Sager Series at Swarthmore College. Fully bilingual (English/Russian). Hosted on April 23, 2021. Additional Information: Aleksandr Il'ianen, among Russia’s most renowned writers and poets, has been described as “one of contemporary queer literature’s most important exponents.” His work emphasizes the fragility of human connection and the possibilities of identity, and his innovative novels, which are composed of small fragments of writing made every day, highlight the role of memory in artistic creation. In 2007, hе received the Andrei Bely Prize, one of Russia’s most prestigious literary awards, for his novel Butik Vanity [Boutique Vanity]. Ivan Sokolov is a queer poet, translator, and scholar from St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently, he is a graduate student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, where he specializes in poetry. His writing centers on the tensions between language and representation, queer desire, and discovery. He was longlisted for the prestigious LiteraturRentgen Prize (2011) and shortlisted for the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Poetry Prize for young Russian-language poets (2016). His poetry and translations have been published in journals including Vozdukh, [Translit], Mitin zhurnal, Zerkalo, and Nosorog. As a participant in the Goethe-Institut’s 2015 collaboration VERSschmuggel/Poeticheskaia diVERSiia, Sokolov worked alongside Russian and German poets to produce a bilingual poetry anthology.