Victor Erofeev: short biography

Victor Erofeev is a modern Russian writer. He is also known as a TV presenter. Sometimes he speaks on the radio.

Biography

Viktor Vladimirovich was born in September 1947 in Moscow. His family was close to the authorities, since his father (Vladimir Ivanovich) had the highest diplomatic rank, and besides that, he was Stalin's personal interpreter.

Mother, Galina Nikolayevna, together with her husband graduated from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages And worked as an interpreter.

From 1955 to 1959 he lived with his parents in France, as his father was an adviser to the Soviet embassy there.

After graduation, entered the Moscow State University, the Faculty of Philology (Romano-Germanic Department). In 1970 he graduated with success. After three years I went to study in postgraduate study, having chosen the Institute of World Literature for this purpose. In 1975, he already defended his Ph.D. thesis, which was later published in the US as the book "Dostoevsky and French Existentialism."

Career

Victor Erofeev started publishing in 1967. These were articles in periodicals. He gained fame in 1973 after the publication of an essay on the creative work of the Marquis de Sade in the journal Questions of Literature.

In the late 1970s he organized the production of the literary almanac Metropol. This samizdat magazine, because of which he was expelled from the Writers' Union. In addition, the diplomatic career of Vladimir Ivanovich suffered somewhat.

This incident affected the literary career of the writer, since Viktor Erofeev ceased to be published in his homeland (the ban was lifted in 1988).

In 1989, the Soviet Union published his first book, entitled "The Body of Anna, or the End of the Russian Avant-garde." In fact, this is a story, a speech about a girl who is fattening, sometimes losing weight, which identifies herself with the poet Akhmatova, then with the empress Anna Ioannovna.

Victor Erofeev, whose stories are published in collections throughout the world, has gained immense popularity due to his novel "Russian Beauty". This happened in 1990. The book immediately became super popular, it was translated into twenty languages of the world. The writer shows in the book the opposition of two completely different universes - the world of a successful man and the world of a beautiful provincial. These people were not supposed to meet, but fate united their lives, without giving hope for happiness.

According to the book, a film was shot (screenwriters Viktor Erofeev and Cesare Ferrario), roles were performed by both Russian actors and Western (Italy) actors.

In addition, in 1990, Yerofeyev's controversial article "A Wake on Soviet Literature" was published.

Victor Erofeev, books, collections of short stories and essays which are published in large editions not only in Russia but also in Europe and America, spend a lot of time abroad, conducting cycles of lectures on literature.

The writer for some time was the host on the channel "Culture". His program "Apocrypha" covered various issues of contemporary literature and its interaction with other spheres of culture.

On the radio was the host of the program "Encyclopedia of the Russian Soul".

He is the chief editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing.

A family

Victor Erofeev has a younger brother Andrew (born in 1956). He is a well-known art critic, curator of art exhibitions.

Victor Erofeev was married three times. The first wife was Polka Veslava Skura. They were married by marriage in the early 1970s. In 1976, a Russian writer and Polish designer had his son Oleg. Now he is a successful publisher, he is also involved in publishing his father's books.

Officially not divorcing after twenty-nine years of marriage, Erofeev began to live with a Ukrainian photographer, eighteen-year-old Eugene Durer. In 2005, they had a daughter, Maya. However, the birth of a child did not save their relationship. Evgenia decided to leave the civil spouse in 2008.

Victor Erofeev is a writer who twice was in an official marriage. The last wife was a fan of the writer Catherine, who is younger than him for forty years. They have been married since 2010. The wedding was celebrated in the popular restaurant "The Garden", owned by A. Tsekalo and I. Urgant.

Interesting Facts

1. Alfred Schnittke wrote an opera based on Erofeev's story "Life with an Idiot", which was first shown in Amsterdam in 1992.
2. In 1992 he received a literary award to them. Nabokov.
3. Viktor Vladimirovich participated in the show "The Last Hero" in 2008. But I could not even get to the island, because it needed to jump off a comfortable yacht and swim to the shore. Nikita Dzhigurda refused to do this with him .