{"id":5258,"date":"2016-04-06T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=5258"},"modified":"2016-05-15T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:40:09","slug":"russian-writer-vladimir-maramzin-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/events\/russian-writer-vladimir-maramzin-in-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Writer Vladimir Maramzin in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maramzin\"<\/a>A rare chance to meet Vladimir Maramzin, perhaps one of the best Russian writers today!<\/p>\n

Language: <\/strong>Russian
\nEntrance: <\/strong>\u00a35; CamRuSS members \u00a33
\nRefreshments afterwards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He will talk about his life and work and present \u201cThe Fame Bearer\u201d the first volume of his new trilogy \u201cThe Country Called Emigration\u201d. The book brings together real people (Joseph Brodsky, Vladimir Maksimov, Andrey Sinyavsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Oleg Tselkov, and others) and fictitious characters, who represent the archetypes of the Russian emigration from 1960s to the beginning of the 21st century. Maramzin describes their integration into the Western life, their relations with the new Russia, their road to fame or conscious refusal to pursue it.<\/p>\n

Biography:<\/strong>
\nMaramzin occupies a unique place among contemporary Russian writers. He was born in 1934 and started writing in the 1950s, joining a lively group of young Leningraders encouraged by the relatively free atmosphere of Khrushchev\u2019s \u201cthaw\u201d. Even in those \u201cliberal\u201d times, there was nothing in his prose that could make it acceptable to the Soviet authorities \u2013 its style was fresh, ironic, paradoxical, its content as far removed as possible from the stereotypes of socialist realism. He clearly had the makings of an important writer. Joseph Brodsky said in 1974: \u201cI consider Vladimir Maramzin the most outstanding Russian prose writer of the post-war generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, Maramzin could not make his living by his prose \u2013 instead he worked as an engineer at a factory and wrote film scripts and books for children. In love with literature, he distributed copies of the works of forbidden writers, in particular, Andrey Platonov and Vladimir Nabokov, among his friends. His own prose was published in samizdat , in particular in the collection \u201cCity-Dwellers\u201d (Gorozhane) \u2013 this was the name of a literary group, which included Boris Vakhtin, Igor Efimov and others.<\/p>\n

In 1974 he was arrested for compiling a 5-volume samizdat edition of Brodsky\u2019s poetry. The charge was later changed for \u201cwriting anti-Soviet prose\u201d. After spending a year in prison Maramzin was given a suspended sentence and just like Brodsky two years before him was sent into exile. He was 40 years old.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Maramzin has spent the subsequent 40 years of his life in Paris, where he has contributed to the magazine Kontinent, edited (together with Alexey Khvostenko) the literary magazine Ekho, which has published Platonov\u2019s Juvenile Sea and a bibliography of his works, and written his own short and long stories. His work has been translated into English, French and German. Among English translations are: Don\u2019t Steal! and Get Away from the Scene of the Accident (Russian Literature Triquarterly, Number 5, Winter 1973, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis); The Story of the Marriage of Ivan Petrovich (Anchor Books, Anchor Press\/Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1976 and Andr\u00e9 Deutsch, London); The Two-Toned Blond and Other Stories (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1984).<\/p>\n

Between 1981 and 2003 no new works of Maramzin appeared. Only in the last decade has he returned to publishing his works, and amazingly \u2013 his prose is still as fresh and original as when he started to write. His recent books include: \u201cThe Son of the Fatherland\u201d (2003); the collection of essays (2007) and \u201cThe Fame-Bearer\u201d (2013) all published by \u201cEcho\u201d in Paris.<\/p>\n

Maramzin considers himself a political exile. Since his departure from the Soviet Union in 1975 he has never been back and has been reluctant to publish even his major works in Russia. Several short stories and a couple of essays, including those on Leskov and Nabokov, have appeared there since Gorbachev\u2019s perestroika.<\/p>\n

(Masha Karp)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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