Maletsky, Yuri Iosifovich

He graduated from the philological faculty of Kuibyshev University . He lived in Moscow. He made his debut in literature with the story “On the Line” in the Parisian Continent magazine (1986, under the pseudonym Yuri Lapidus). For two months he headed the prose department in the journal New World (1995). Emigrated to Germany (1996); worked as a guide on the cultural and historical routes of Europe. For a short time he was the editor-in-chief of the Grani magazine (1996), and subsequently was a member of the editorial board of the journal Foreign Notes .

The critic V. Serdyuchenko accentuates the problematics of emigration as a life choice in the experience of Yuri Maletsky: “In the Continent there appeared a woeful revelation of Yuri Maletsky (Prose of the Poet) about the true fate of Russian humanities in a foreign land. My friends who moved to the West hide, so to speak, their emigrant skeletons in a closet, but there was a man who turned this sad truth out. The title of the story is amazingly accurate. This is a report of the clash of beautiful-hearted immigrant tales with the fierce prose of emigrant life. To the credit of the author and his hero, there is no anathema to the West that deceived him. It was he who acted as a naive boob, who lost his job, squandered his last family savings and decided to improve his affairs due to mythical literary earnings in the West. You read this and you wonder: are it really possible such infantile simplicity? Perhaps - Yu. Maletsky answers this, and continues with a gnashing of teeth to describe the calvary of Russian Candida in the emigrant West. But, we repeat, the hero blames himself for his misfortunes - and in the end he gets to the very truths that were mentioned at the beginning: emigration is a state of the soul. “To embark on such an adventure as moving to another country / ... /, having more than forty years in the background, twenty years of non-working discipline for 8 hours a day, the absence of any useful specialty and the ability to learn it, a family that needs to be pulled and drag out for years until at least the eldest (scary to think about the younger one) becomes an adult independent person - only a madman and, moreover, a socially dangerous madman can do this from such puberty motives as a tendency to self-knowledge ” ^[1] .

He died after a long, serious illness on February 20, 2018 in Moscow. The funeral was held in the Church of the Resurrection of the Word on the Assumption Enemy.

The first publication by Maletsky is the short story “On the Line” in the Paris Continent (1986, under the pseudonym Yu. Lapidus). In Russia, it began to be published at the time of the collapse of the Soviet matrix in the magazines Znamya, Friendship of Peoples, and especially often in Moscow Continent. The first book, Shelter, was published in 1997 by the Book Garden publishing house (Moscow), and the second, Greetings from California, was published in Vagrius (2001, Moscow). The most active period of his work was in the late 1990s and the first decade of the new century. Published as a prose writer, critic, essayist. He polemicized with the religious and philosophical concept of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which she proposed in the novel "Daniel Stein, translator."

He published essays and articles in the Parisian newspaper Russian Thought.

Maletsky’s last book, “Smile Forever,” was published shortly before his death in the St. Petersburg publishing house Aleteya (2017). To a large extent, it is an authorial confession.

The novels “Love” and “The End of the Needle” were included in the short list of the award “ Russian Booker ” (1997, 2007). Awarded the prize of the magazine "Golden Age" (1995).

WRITER'S OPINION YURI KUVALDIN

A very deep, I would even say, philosophical writer Yuri Maletsky somewhere has long been sheltered in Germany. And his crazy eyes are constantly looking for Yuri Kuvaldin. The main thing is to peck a letter every day. The book, a brick, as they used to say, by the writer Yuri Iosifovich Maletsky "Shelter" in the hands of the writer Yuri Kuvaldin. I myself am amazed now, have I really published it ?! Can it be that I have already issued more than 200 issues of the journal without a single pass, every month from the day of foundation, one ?! And he published hundreds of millions of books ?! And he wrote ten volumes of fiction ?! As the poet Vadim Perelmuter said: "Whoever made a square from the circle will be Sigismund Krzyzhanowski!" And the book of the writer Yuri Maletsky among them. Yuri Maletsky was so shaky, so insecure, he looked at me with trembling, with fear, as at a general. And so it is, I am strict, very strict, I love drill, parade ground, drill training. The book by Yuri Maletsky is very dense, strong, beautifully written, brilliantly published, even more ingeniously designed by the Leader of the Third Russian Avant-garde artist Alexander Trifonov. With the author’s comments at the end, in which Yuri Maletsky writes: “The idea to include author’s comments in the book belongs to the publisher Yu. Kuvaldin.” [one]

Critics

According to critic Eugene Ermolin ,

Yuri Maletsky is the leader of modern Russian prose of the religious horizon. And only global deformations of the actual literary map prevent many from accepting and realizing it ^[2] .

"The infinitely reflexive, intelligently forked, apparently rushing and vacillating modern Russian prose writer Yuri Maletsky extremely consistently and purposefully grows the eternal from everyday and everyday. Yuri Maletsky, the author appeals to orthodox senses and renews the real, strict and dark fire of faith associated with a sin that kills acutely experienced sin.In his gradually formed lyric-dramatic trilogy “Love”, “Physiology of the Spirit” and “The End of the Needle” we have a concentrate of everyday experience, orient the ultimate testimony of a modern man, the realization of a life-meaning conflict in the traditions of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Maletsky's prose presents experiments on a modern man with his faith and his unbelief, on the border of being and death, in a tense dialogue with God and with another person, with the unresolved problem of loneliness , with a stubbornly stubborn search for love as the inevitably painful center of existence - and with the experience of failure as the central experience of human life in this fallen world " ^[3] .

In the introduction to Maletsky’s latest book, critic Irina Rodnyanskaya noted that the novel “Smile Forever” is “personal experience of the most acute borderline state experienced by a person in a foreign country and in hospital solitude, but generalized to the experience of the universal (as the original title of this text says“ Once ... everywhere ... any "). We enter a stream of seemingly difficult intellectual reading, where," on the fateful line "(F. Tyutchev about late age), the" last "questions of life and death, faith and unbelief are comprehended and to God and estrangement from Him - illuminated by novelistic flashbacks that refer to the hero’s past, and a rich “mentioning keyboard” from the spheres of the literature of painting, architecture, history, and yet it is an easy, even joyful reading that shimmers with all shades of comic - from "high humor down to the joke and joker. We can say that we have before us the tragicomic epic of personal and universal human fate at its limit." The critic described the “unfinished story” “The End of the Needle” as follows: “It demonstrates the art of a writer so inclined toward autobiography and autopsychology to get used to the soul that is completely alien to him in all respects - to the psyche of an old woman in the nineteen very unbelieving Soviet it was not “divine,” unarmed before the final manifestation of Death; the story was called “unfinished” as a sign of the author’s faith in posthumousness, which is also to come for this human soul suffering from the prospect of non-existence " ^[4] .

• Next in line // Continent, 1986, No. 47–48 (under the pseudonym Yu. Lapidus)
• The Lights on the Other Side: A Tale // Banner, 1990, No. 12
• Onyx bowl // "Friendship of Peoples", 1994, No. 2
• Shelter // Continent, No. 81, 1994
• I love // ​​"Continent", No. 88, 1996
• Refuge: Novel, novels and short stories. M .: Book Garden, 1997
• Autoapology of the author, or Criticism of critical criticism // Continent, 1997, No. 93
• The prose of the poet // "Continent", 1999, No. 99
• Greetings from California: Novel, Tale, Story. M .: Vagrius, 2001
• Smoked beer. Story // "Herald of Europe", 2001, No. 3
• Physiology of the spirit. A novel in letters // Continent, 2002, No. 113
• Gruppenführer // Foreign Notes, 2005, No. 3
• The end of the needle // "Foreign notes", 2006, No. 7
• Roman Ulitskaya as a mirror of the Russian intelligentsia // New World 2007, No. 5
• Sixteen Tons of Centon // Foreign Notes, 2007, No. 9
• Stein's Case: An Amateur Theological Investigation Experience. The novel about the novel // "Continent", 2007, No. 133
• The case of Doroshenko: the experience of a repentant response to a fellow scientist // Continent, 2007, No. 134
• In memory of the three comrades of Erich Maria Remarque // "Foreign Notes", 2008, No. 13
• On the line of fire, or Walks in the Gardens of Russian literature // "Continent", 2008, No. 136
• Knight of a believer of disbelief, or walks in the gardens of Russian literature-2: Lurie // Foreign Notes, 2009, No. 20
• New barbarians, or Walks in the gardens of Russian literature −3 // Continent, 2010, No. 146
• Christmas Poetry // Sunday, 2012, January 5. - http://vsdn.ru/authorcolumn/?a=comment&c=239&replyto=
• How I visited Madrid. Entry of Irina Rodnyanskaya // The Banner, 2015, No. 12
• Smile forever. SPb., Aletheia, 2017.

• Zlobina A. New World. - 1994. No. 10 - about the story "Onyx Cup"
• Gachev G. “What we read” // Spark. - No. 41, Oct. 13. 1997 - about the story "Love"
• Kublanovsky Yu. “Love” - a story full of meaning // New World, No. 2, 1997
• Kasatkina T. In Search of Lost Reality // New World. 1997. No 3 - about the novel “Love”
• Kasatkina T. “Takkaya pain” // New Europe. - 1997. No. 10 - about "Love"
• Ermolin E. The verbal builders of the Temple // Church and Public Herald. Specialist. Appendix to Russian Thought, 1997, No. 13, April 10 - on the prose of Maletsky and I. Druta
• Ermolin E. Anti-criticism. Reply to Yuri Maletsky // Continent. - 1998. No. 95
• Nemzer A. It would be desirable, will be changed, will endure ... In his book "Literary today. Prose. 90s ", M.: New Literary Review, 1998 - about the story" Onyx Chalice "
• Remizova M. Grand Solitaire of the 97th year. A look at literature through the prism of the Booker jury // Continent. No. 95 (1998) - about the novel “Love”
• Berezin V. Everything is fine // October. - 1999. No. 12. - about the novel "The Prose of the Poet"
• Serdyuchenko V. Misanthropic notes // Neva. - 1999. No. 8 - about the story "Love"
• Gavrilov A. Plus the perfect for us // New World. - 2000. No. 1 - about the novel "The Prose of the Poet"
• Ermolin E. Where is your smile? // New world. 2003. No. 8 - about the novel "Physiology of the Spirit"
• Vyaltsev A. Physiology of love // ​​Friendship of Peoples. - 2003. No. 4 - about the novel "Physiology of the Spirit"
• Rodnyanskaya I. The bottom line // New World. - 2007. No. 5 - about Maletsky-critic of Ulitskaya
• Kazarina T. Kazus Maletsky // Friendship of Peoples. - 2007. - No. 8. - Rec. to: Maletsky Yu. The end of the needle
• Ermolin E. Recovery of the dead / / New World. - 2007. No. 9 - about the novel "The End of the Needle".
• Ermolin E. Killed time. Living faces // Continent. - 2007. No. 134.
• Shishkova-Shipunova S. Return of the “priests”: clergymen are increasingly becoming heroes of modern prose // Banner. - 2008. No. 2 - about Maletsky as a critic of Ulitskaya
• Ermolin E.A. Prose of spiritual experience as an actual creative experiment: Trilogy of Yuri Maletsky // Verkhnevolzhsky Philological Bulletin. - 2015. - No. 3.
• Ermolin E. Miracles do happen // New World. 2018. № 1. - About the book: Yuri Maletsky. Smile forever. The novel and the story. SPb., “Aletheia”, 2017

• Yuri Maletsky in the " Journal Hall "