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Read a couple short
pieces by Pyetsukh here.
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vyacheslav pyetsukh
Born November 18, 1946 in Cherkizovo, Pyetsukh is a prolific writer of both fiction and essays. After
more than a decade of teaching history at the secondary-school level, his life changed
drastically in 1982 when, as a result of a conflict with school officials over the publication of several of
his short works, he was forced to resign from his post. Not having previously considered writing professionally,
after the publication of his first book the following year he embarked on a successful career as one of
Russia's most published contemporary authors.
Pyetsukh's work was received with much enthusiasm, and he quickly became a major figure of the late-Soviet
period and thereafter. A recipient of a number of literary awards, Pyetsukh has played an important role in Russian
cultural criticism, and from 1993 to 1995 he served as editor in chief of one of the "thick" literary journals. Since
then, 15 collected editions of his work have been published, and his fiction and non-fiction regularly appear in the
major Russian literary journals and magazines. Often meta-literary, his writing has received critical attention
both at home and abroad and has been placed in the context of 1990s Russian postmodernism alongside such writers as
Tatiana Tolstaya, Victor Erofeyev, and Evgeny Popov. With Pyetsukh, however, there has been a turn away from
the postmodern and the recurring themes of his work are the nature of literary creation and the extent to which
literature has formed the Russian character. As a philosopher and "national thinker" he has been compared to the
likes of Vladimir Soloviev, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Pyetsukh and his wife Irina, an art dealer specializing in avant-garde painting, live in Moscow.
For a fuller biography, go here.
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Books by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh published by Twisted Spoon:
The New Moscow Philosophy
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