Oleg Postnov

Oleg Postnov
Occupation Author
Language Russian, German, Hungarian
Nationality Russian
Education PhD
Alma mater Novosibirsk University
Period 1990-present
Notable awards

Veteran of Russian Academy of Science (Siberian Branch)

Silver Sigma
Children Nikita Postnov

Oleg Postnov (Russian: Олег Постнов; born 1962) is a Russian author, university professor, philologist and a literary critic.

Postnov is an internationally acclaimed novelist most recognized for his philosophical fiction about love. The critics have described Postnov's work as an amalgamation of the Russian's classics: "as if Vladimir Nabokov took on a rewrite of Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"[1]—with the added "macabre of Edgar Allan Poe."[2] In the 1990s, Postnov briefly lived in the United States. He described the experience in several essays, including "USA: the Art of Shopping"[3] and "USA: the State of Snow."[4] Postnov's novel Angst has been translated into German.

Early years and education

Postnov was born in Russian Akademgorodok to G.S. Postnov, a philology professor. He graduated from the Novosibirsk University, the Humanities Division. In 1990, Oleg Postnov received his PhD. Postnov's doctoral thesis "Goncharov's Esthetics" was published several years after his graduation as an in depth study with the target audience of the researches specializing in literature studies and the history of aesthetics."[5]

Family

Postnov lives in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia with his son Nikita.

Writing career

The Sand Timer (Russian: Песочное время) (Novosibirsk, 1997) Postnov published his first work of fiction—a short story "The Sand Timer"—in 1997.[6] The Sand Timer received the distinction of Matador Magazine's prestigious "top ten books 1998."

Angst (Russian: Страх) (Amfora 2001) is an "erotic mysticism novel with a detective plot".[7] In Russia, Postnov's Angst took the first prize in the "Catch of 1999"[8] the Russian nationwide competition and was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize of 2002;[9] for the National Bestseller Prize,[10] shortlisted for the Apollon Grigoriev Prize[11] In Germany, where the critics took Angst to be Postnov's literary debut, Die Berliner Literaturktitik compared the book to Nabokov's Lolita and called Postnov a "magician."[12] A story of love of a Russian youth and a Ukrainian beauty is set in the deep Ukrainian country in 1991.

The Antiquary (Russian: Антиквар) (Lenizdat 2013)

Academic career and awards

Silver Sigma

Postnov's doctorate explores classic Russian literature of the first third of the 19th century.

Between 1986 and 2007, Postnov worked as senior scientist for the Institute of Philology Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch). He is a recipient of the medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch) and a Silver Sigma.

Postnov has published a number of scholarly books and articles.

Scholarly books

Scholarly articles

Television and theater

In 2011, The Moscow Theater of Nations opened its production of Albert Camus's Caligula[22] in translation of Oleg Postnov and E.A. Gorny. The same year, the production toured nationally, including the Villa Adriana International Festival in Tivoli, Italy.[23] In 2012, the production received the most prestigious award in the Russian Federation theater—the Golden Mask. In 2014, the production is still as popular as the day it was opened. TV channel Moskva 24 reported that "The ever-busy Muscovites not only find the time to watch this four-hour-long play," but even form long lines to buy the expensive tickets.[24]

The Theater of Nations plans to televise Caligula in the spring of 2014.

Postnov’s contribution to the theater, —in addition to his translation of Camu’s Caligula, include an original play called Ernst, Theodor, Amadeus. Postnov’s fairy-tale-like play explores the last year and death of the German Romantic and storyteller best known as E.T.A. Hoffmann (the author of The Nutcracker). It is also a story of two childhood friends and rivals, who grew up to be the prototypical poet and the prototypical tyrant.

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References

  1. ↑ Tokarchuk, Maria (2001-10-22). "Lolita v tyomnykh alleyach". Knizhnoe Obozrenie 43 (1845): 5.
  2. ↑ Lopushanskaya, Elena (2002-02-21). Russkaya Mysl' (Paris) 4397. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Postnov, Oleg. "The USA—The Art of Shopping". Yarmarka Sibiri 4 (13): 26–27.
  4. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (1996). "The USA: The State of Snow". Yarmarka Sibiri 3 (12): 26–27.
  5. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (1997). Estetika Goncharova. Nauka.
  6. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (1990). "Sand Timer". Oktyabr 12.
  7. ↑ Danilov, Lev (May 2001). "Kolyaska: Rukopis, naidennaya Olegom Postnovym". Afisha 9 (55): 94.
  8. ↑ Editor's List, ULOV (Catch of the Year). "Setevoi Literaturny Konkurs". Strakh. Retrieved 4/4/14. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  9. ↑ Editorial. "The News, Booker Prize, Voprosy bez otvetov". Gramota Ru. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  10. ↑ Oleg, Postnov. "Setevaya Slovestnost". Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  11. ↑ Vasilevski, Andrei. "Литературная премия имени Аполлона Григорьева". Russki Zhurnal. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  12. ↑ Die Berliner Literaturkritik (December 11, 2003). "Die große, unerfüllte Liebe, Oleg Postnows Romandebüt "Angst"".
  13. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (1997). Odinikov, ed. Estetika I.A. Goncharova (in Russian). Library of Congress, Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms.
  14. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (2000). N.N. Darvin, ed. Pushkin i smert': opyt semiaticheskogo analiza (in Russian). Library of Congress, Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms.
  15. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (2001). Romodanovskaia, ed. Smert' v Rossii X-XX vv.: istoriko-etnograficheskii o sotsiokul'turnyi aspekty (in Russian). Library of Congress, Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms.
  16. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (2003). "Pushkin and Grin". Philologica: the bilingual journal of Russian and Theoretical Phylology 7 (117/18): 195–198. Retrieved 4/4/14. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  17. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (2004). "Obraz Ya. V. Brusa v Russkoy literaturnoy traditsii XX stoletiya". National Scientific Conference, materials (in Russian) (Voenno-Istorichesky Museum) II: 103–108.
  18. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (2006). "Русская военная эпитафия XVIII - начала XIX веков // Военное прошлое государства Российского: утраченное и сохранённое". Материалы Всероссийской научно-практической конференции, посвящённой 250-летию Достопамятного зала (in Russian) (Изд. Военно-исторического музея) 3: 38042.
  19. ↑ Postnov, Oleg; Boiko, V.A. (2006). Истина в пространстве художественного текста (PDF). Критика и семиотика (in Russian) (Новосибирск: ИДМИ) 9: 4–23. Retrieved 4/4/14. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  20. ↑ Postnov, Oleg; Boiko, V.A. (2007). "Личность и традиция в современном мире: Опыт преодоления проблемы "лишнего человека" в русской литературе ХIХ века" (PDF) (in Russian) 11. Новосибирск: ИДМИ: 192–203.
  21. ↑ Postnov, Oleg (2009). Парадоксы Сысоева (О книге Вячеслава Сысоева "Потешки – не глум, возьми себе на ум"): Рецензия // Словесность 2009: Проза, поэзия, мемуары, публицистика, интервью (PDF). Альманах (in Russian) («Библиотека газеты «МОЛ») 3: 138–140.
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  23. ↑ Theater of Nations, official website. "Caligula, About the Show". Retrieved 2014-03-19.
  24. ↑ "Production of Camus, Theater of Nations". Retrieved 04/01/2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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