Alec Flegon ( Oleg (or sometimes Alexander ) Vasilievich Flegont , English Alec Flegon ; January 20, 1924 , Novoselitsa , Bessarabia - May 15, 2003 , London , UK ) - British publisher, publicist, compiler of dictionaries and albums visual arts.
| Alec Flegon | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | January 20, 1924 |
| Place of Birth | Novoselitsa , Bessarabia |
| Date of death | May 15, 2003 (aged 79) |
| Place of death | London , UK |
| Citizenship |  Great Britain |
| Occupation | publisher , publicist, compiler of dictionaries and albums of fine art |
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Biography
Mother was Romanian, father Vasily Mikhailovich Flegont - Belarusian. In 1940, when Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina joined the USSR, he fled to Bucharest. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bucharest , after which he worked as an engineer on a Romanian collective farm.
Then he entered the literary faculty of the Institute. Gorky in Moscow and joined the Romanian Communist Party , where he dealt with food problems.
In 1956 he did not return from a tourist trip to Slovakia, joining Hungarian refugees, and through Austria emigrated to the UK, where he received political asylum. Settled in London. For some time he worked at the factory, and then at the Romanian service of the BBC .
In the early 1960s he founded the publishing house Flegon press , which published Russian literature. He published the journal Student, a journal of the avant-garde of Soviet literature. In 1968, Bulgakov's “ Dog Heart ” was first published there.
Phlegon published “ One Day by Ivan Denisovich ” (1964), “ In the First Circle ” (1968) and “ August Fourteenth ” (1971) A.I. Solzhenitsyna. Since the last book was published by Flegon without Solzhenitsyn’s permission and without paying a fee, he sued Flegon for copyright infringement and won the case. In response, Flegon wrote a sharply critical book “Around Solzhenitsyn” (1981), which was published in the CIS only in 1993 in Bishkek ( Kyrgyzstan ).
In the last years of his life, Phlegon suffered from Alzheimer's. He died in London on May 15, 2003.
His collection of literature from the early years of Soviet rule was sold at Bonhams in 2010. [1] [2]
Works
- Soviet Foreign Trade Techniques. 1965.
- Eroticism in Russian Art. 1976.
- A. Solzhenitsyn: Myth and Reality. 1986.
- Beyond Russian dictionaries: additional words and meanings with quotes from Lenin, Khrushchev, Yesenin, Stalin, Barkov, Pushkin, Mayakovsky, Voznesensky, Lermontov, Solzhenitsyn and others. London, Flegon Press Publishing House, 1979.
- Around Solzhenitsyn. London, Phlegon Press, 1981.
- Is Solzhenitsyn a Prophet? Bishkek, 1993.
Links
- Alec Flegon (English)