Kulakov, Vladislav Gennadevich

Born October 30, 1959 in the Moscow region . He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) and the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky .

Since the 1990s, he has been engaged in journalism ( editor-in-chief of XXL magazine and others). Candidate of Philological Sciences ( 2000 ). Lives in Moscow .

In the 1980s, he studied unofficial Russian poetry in the second half of the 20th century . Since 1989, he published articles and reviews on contemporary Russian poetry in the magazines Znamya , Novy Mir , Novy literaturnoye obozrenie, etc. A significant part of the published works are presented in the author's collections Poetry as a Fact (1999), Post factum. Book of Poems ”(2007).

In 2000 he defended his thesis on philology on the topic "Unofficial poetry of the 1950-1980s. History and poetics. "

Co-editor, together with Ivan Akhmetiev , of the poetry section of the anthology “Samizdat of the Century”, which is the basis of the network anthology “Russian Virtual Library” .

• Poetry as a fact. Articles about verses. - M .: UFO, 1999.
• Unofficial poetry of the 1950-1980s. History and poetics: the dissertation of the candidate of philological sciences. - M., 2000 .-- 201 p.
• After the fact. Book of verses. - M .: UFO, 2007 .-- 228 p.

• Lianozovo. The history of a poetic group // "Questions of literature", No. 3, 1991; Kulakov, pp. 11-35.
• The lamb poetry of Igor Kholin as a classic epic of new literature // UFO, No. 5 (1993), p.206-207; Kulakov, p. 157-160.
• About Igor Kholin's Prose // UFO, No. 34 (6/1998), p. 311-315; Vladislav Kulakov. After the fact: A book about poetry. - M .: UFO, 2007.S. 183-188.
• Lianozovo in Germany // UFO, No. 5 (1993), p. 287-288; Kulakov, p. 161-163.
• The separation of literature from the state. How it began // "New World", No. 4, 1994, p.100-112; Kulakov, p.134-156. About Chertkov's group. See here together with the verses of Chertkovtsy and Shatrov (NM, p.113-132).
• On the benefits of practice for theory // Literary Newspaper, No. 52, 1990, p.5; Kulakov, p. 35-41. Response to the article by B. Groys “On the benefits of theory for practice” (LG, No. 44).
• Names of objects // Kulakov, p. 79-83. (Initially, in the Moscow Observer, No. 2, 1992, pp. 56, 58; introduction to the publication of Sokovnin's prose and plays.)
• Alfred Tennyson in the translations of Mikhail Sokovnin // Kulakov, pp. 84-87. It was intended for the failed publication of these translations in the "Foreign Literature".
• The Bronze Age of Russian poetry? (On the state of the poetic language) // "Ural", No. 6, 1993, p.220-235.
• Concrete poetry and classical avant-garde // Poetics of the Russian avant-garde, p.35-37; Kulakov, p.168-171.
• To Paradise admitted in absentia // Novy Mir 1995, No. 2: Review of Leonid Aronzon. Poems and Leonid Aronzon. Favorites Kulakov, pp .98-203.
• Unofficial Leningrad poetry of the 50s and 70s: References // UFO, No. 14 (1995), pp. 312-314. Comp. I. Akhmetiev, V. Kulakov.
• Visuality in modern poetry: minimalism and maximalism // UFO, No. 16 (1995), p.253-254; Kulakov, p. 300-302.
• Minimalism: strategy and tactics // UFO, No. 23 (1997), p.258-261; Kulakov, p.303-308.
• A pause will tell you more. Minimalism in modern Russian poetry // Minimalismus. Zwischen Leere und Exzess. Wiener Slawisticher Almanach, Sonderband 51 (2001). S. 79-99; Vladislav Kulakov. After the fact: A book about poetry. - M.: UFO, 2007. S.199-215.
• The lyrics - this is what is required ... // "Banner", No. 12, 1991, p.222-229; Kulakov, p. 42-59. The poetry of the "new wave".
• Just an art. Postmodern and the postmodern situation in poetry // Humanitarian Fund, No. 23, 1992; Kulakov, p. 60-73.
• Poetry without illusions // Russian Courier, No. 18, 1992; Kulakov, pp. 74-78. Regarding the almanac. A personal matter.
• After the disaster: a lyric verse of the Bronze Age // "Banner", No. 2, 1996; Kulakov, p. 241-272. In particular, Gandlevsky, Eisenberg, Krivulin.
• Bronze Age poetry: principles of artistic typology // Questions of ontological poetics. Hidden literature. - Ivanovo, 1998.
• Poems and time // "New World", No. 8, 1995, p.200-208; Kulakov, p. 217-230. See also here. In the same issue there are two responses to this article: I. Rodnyansky and Yu. Kublanovsky.
• SMOG: a view from 1996 // UFO, No. 20 (1996), p. 281-292; Kulakov, p. 275-291. See here.
• Modernist grotesque, Oberiu and modern poetry // Syntax (Paris), No. 25 (1989).
• Spontaneity and ambition in the Oberiut tradition // Kulakov, p.164-167.
• “And I think professors should be hung”: Anthology of the newest Russian poetry “At the Blue Lagoon” by Konstantin Kuzminsky // UFO, No. 14 (1995), pp. 200-208 (on pages 216-222 the contents of some volumes of the AHL); Kulakov, pp. 204-216.
• Premature results // "New World", No. 2, 1996, p.211-214; Kulakov, p. 236-240. About the anthology "Stanzas of the Century" (STR). See here along with other book reviews.
• In the image and likeness of the language: Poetry of the 80s // UFO, No. 32 (4/1998), p.202-214; Vladislav Kulakov. After the fact: A book about poetry. - M .: UFO, 2007.S. 163-179. See here (excerpts from the article with distortions).
• The ability to understand. A few words about the salon "Classics of the XXI Century" // Kulakov, p.298-299.
• A few words about special merit: Speech at the presentation of the Andrei Bely Prize for 2007 to Vsevolod Nekrasov.
• Alexander Velichansky and conceptualism // Philological traditions in modern literary and linguistic education. Issue 9. T.1. M .: MGPI, 2010.S. 253-257. Basically, a fragment of the previous text (Ashes of words. T.1. S.17-21).
• Krasovitsky and Aronzon are two central myths of new poetry // Wiener slawistischer Almanach Band 62. Munchen: Sagner, 2008.

• “At present, he is one of several critics who, based on the more or less general long-standing past of culture, are able to model one of the possible options for its still un-common recent past, a fundamentally non-general present and infinitely varied future.” ( Valery Shubinsky . Past - Present - Future? Banner, 2007, No. 8.)

• Kulakov, Vladislav Gennadevich on the site " A new map of Russian literature "
• Bibliography on the site of the Russian Virtual Library
• Kulakov, Vladislav Gennadevich in the " Journal Hall "
• Page on the site "Persons of Russian Literature"
• Articles on the site Lenta.ru
• V. Shubinsky. "The past - the present - the future?" Review of V. Kulakov's collection "After the fact. Book of Poems ”- Banner , 2007 , No. 8.