Kazakov, Vladimir Vasilievich

Born on August 29, 1938 in Moscow. Studied at a military school; He was expelled in 1956. He entered the pedagogical institute, from where he was expelled in 1958. In 1959-1962. worked in Kolyma (at gold mines, lumberjack, etc.). He wrote poetry since childhood, in 1965 he considered the beginning of serious writing; in 1966 he met Alexei Kruchenykh , on whose advice he began to write prose. Subsequently, he called the meeting with A. Kruchenykh one of the main events of his life. He lived in the suburbs, died in Moscow on June 23, 1988.

Vladimir Kazakov - the successor of the traditions of the Russian avant-garde , especially the Futurists and Oberiuts . In prose, poetry and plays based on absurdism, pun, grotesque, he addressed the topics of human alienation, loneliness, cruelty of generally accepted living standards. Kazakov's works were distributed in samizdat , and since 1971 were published in the West. In the USSR in 1966, several prosaic miniatures were published in the magazines Radio-Television and Rural Youth ; the next publication took place in 1989, after the death of the writer.

Written in 1970, Kazakov’s novel, “The Mistake of the Living” (1976), is a free association of 17 fragments in which the absurd nature of the narrative is even stronger. The title is justified only by a hint of V. Khlebnikov ’s drama “Error of Death” (1916). Unity is achieved not through the plot, but through the return of names, repeated methods of transmitting absurdity (rearrangement in the system of subject-object, spiritualization of things, etc.) and the frequent use of the semantic field of the words “mirror”, “clock”, “lantern”. <...> Short prose works by Kazakov are very saturated. The author is fully focused on the word. This is his reaction to confidence in the logical cognition of the world and the exclusion of everything transcendental, characteristic of a different worldview.

- Wolfgang Cossack

• My meetings with Vladimir Kazakov: Prose. Historical scenes. Scenes Munchen: Carl Hanser, 1972.
• Mistake of the Living: A Novel. - Munich, 1976.
• Random Warrior: Poems 1961-1976. Poems. Dramas. Essay "The Wizard." Munchen: Otto Sagner, 1978.
• Life of Prose / Preface. E. Mnatsakanova . Munchen: Wilhelm Fink, 1982.
• From head to stars: Roman / Preface. E. Mnatsakanova . Munchen: Wilhelm Fink, 1982.
• Don Juan: Dramas. M .: Gilea, 1993.
• Selected works in three volumes. M .: Gilea, 1995:

1. Mistake of the Living: A Novel.
2. The gates. Don Juan: dramas.
3. Poems.

• Unpublished works / Comp. and sub. text by I. E. Kazakova. M .: Gilea, 2003 .-- 456 p.
• Madlon: Prose, poetry, plays. Collages and monotypes of the author / Afterword. A. Eremenko. M .: Gilea, 2012 .-- 304 p.
• Unknown verses. 1966-1988 / Comp. and sub. text of I. Kazakova. M .: Gilea, 2014 .-- 124 p.

• Cossack V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIC "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 . . S.171-172
• I. Levshin . The long-awaited Godot // Modern Drama, No. 1, 1994, p.216-221.
• I. Levshin . Double play by Vladimir Kazakov // New Literary Review, No. 15 (1995), p. 287-292.
• Ilya Kukulin // The Banner, No. 6, 1996. Review of the three-volume.
• Krasilnikova E. G. Vladimir Kazakov: Theme of the Alienated Man // Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences. A series of literature and language. - 1998. - T. 57 , No. 5 . - S. 55–61 .
• Krasilnikova E. G. Postmodernist novels by Vladimir Kazakov / Moscow State Pedagogical University . - M .: Prometheus, 2001 .-- 189 p. - ISBN 5-7042-0953-X .
• Sergey Biryukov . Poetry of the Russian avant-garde. - M.: Publishing House of Ruslan Elinin, 2001. S.153-162
• N.L. Leiderman , M.N. Lipovetsky . Contemporary Russian literature. Book 1. - M .: Editorial URSS, 2001. S.260-263.
• Nefagina G.L. Mirrors and windows of Vladimir Kazakov: poetics of creativity. Scientific works of the Department of Russian Literature of BSU. Issue II. Minsk: BSU Publishing Center, 2003. P. 201—218.

In the book of A. V. Zhukov, the ubiquitous number “pi”, lines from the works of V. Kazakov are used as epigraphs for many chapters.

• Vladimir Kazakov on the site "Unofficial Poetry"
• Vladimir Kazakov in the " Journal Hall "

• Great Encyclopedic Dictionary.