Background
Bitov, Andrei Georgevich was born on May 27, 1937 in Leningrad, Russia.
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No other contemporary novel provides such clear insight into the Russian mind and way of life as Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House. First published in the United States in 1987 and highly praised for its inventiveness, Pushkin House is a contemporary literary masterpiece. Though the novel's focus is a love affair between Lyova and Faina, the novel's true subject is an investigation of the corruption of Soviet intellectual life and history. Working within many of the confines imposed upon him during the Soviet regime, Bitov ingeniously draws upon Russian literary models, especially that of Nabokov, in order to parody and satirize the stifling society about him, as well as Russian literary tradition.
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Bitov, Andrei Georgevich was born on May 27, 1937 in Leningrad, Russia.
Student, Leningrad Mining Institute.
Younger brother of Oleg Bitov. First published in the early 1960s: Bolshoi Shar, 1963. Такое Dolgoe Detstvo, 1965.
Dachnaia Mestnost', 1967 etc. One of his best works, Pushkinskii Dom, was severely censored in the Soviet Union but published in its original form by Ardis, USA in 1978. Participant in the almanac Metropol, 1979.
Lives in Moscow.
See. P. Vail, A. Genis, Sovremennaia Russkaia Proza, USA, 1982.
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Author: (novels) The Big Balloon, 1963, Such a Long Childhood, 1965, A Summer Place, 1967, Apothecary Island, 1968, Way of Life, 1972, Seven Journeys, 1976, Days of Man, 1976, Pushkin House, 1978, A Man in the Landscape, 1987, The Flying Monakhov, 1990, We Woke Up in a Strange Country, 1991, Awaiting Monkeys, 1993, The Empire in Four Dimensions, 1996. (short stories) Sunday, 1980.
3 children.