9/23/2023 0 Comments Phoneme media freedom factory![]() Poet, fiction writer, and artist Ksenia Buksha was born in Saint Petersburg. Fisher won the Cliff Becker Prize for Poetry in Translation The Freedom Factory has echoes of this same device.” ―Gennadiy Kalashnikov “Ksenia Buksha has successfully done what no one else, it seems has been able to do: combine utopia and anti–utopia.” ―Nadezhda Sergeyeva ” ―Maxim Amelin “ I thought of Spanish Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela and his novel The Hive… which through the blending of many disparate voices gives an image of the time, the characters, the particular atmosphere. “ The Freedom Factory is a thriller, a romance, and a social drama all in one, and―this is especially important―it’s a book by a post–Soviet person about the Soviet experience.” ―Dmitriy Bykov “My first impression was that of a … novel written by a slightly drunk Joyce. Fisher has rendered it in an English text that is just as dazzling as the original." ―Sarah Kapp, The Moscow Times ![]() Absolutely everyone."Rife with laugh-out-loud moments, heartbreak, and arresting lyricism, Buksha’s The Freedom Factory brings a bygone era to life in all of its madness, harshness, and beauty. When asked if she prefered Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, she opted in favor of Dostoevsky, adding that she lives near Sennaya Square so “everybody I run into is a Dostoevsky figure. She says she adores Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. ![]() She also lists three authors she considers “close”: Konstantin Vaginov, Alexander Vvedensky, and Lidia Ginzburg. This isn’t surprising, considering that in the same piece she says, “I don’t like the Russian poetry tradition very much.”īuksha Recommends: In an interview with Russian Esquire, Buksha names favorite poets including Grigory Danishevsky, Viktor Ivanov, and particularly Galina Rymbu. On Writing: Buksha said in an interview with Russian Esquire that Oberiu ( on Wikipedia, in brief, here) is where it’s at for writing poetry. As far as I go, I enjoy writing books and poetry and want very much for them to be read all over but without people being curious about me.” More specifically, there’s global intellect but that’s a space for all human thought, not just literature. “Basically, no single literary space exists now. The Word on Buksha: Writer and critic Dmitry Bykov once called Buksha “a normal twenty-five-year-old genius” and said of her writing that “if Khlebnikov understood anything about economics and Kharms had looked optimistically into the future, this is about how they would have written.” Critic Galina Yuzefovich concluded her review of Buksha’s connected stories, Opens In, by writing, “In short, if there’s someone today who can vie for the title of a Russian Alice Munro, that’s unquestionably and that’s excellent news for literature.”īuksha on Buksha: In a 2010 piece for, Buksha said she doesn’t see herself as being part of any sort of literary trend, though she doesn’t have any other sort of separate position either. Petersburg State University, majoring in economics… It’s not really me, it’s grandpa Bakush”… Buksha said she learned German so she could read and understand the words of Bach’s cantatas and Gunther Grass…īuksha’s Places: Born in Leningrad, studied at St. She says she invented him – an eccentric old millionaire – because he can say whatever he wants thanks to his age and wealth and “nobody can say I’m showing off and talking about things ‘I haven’t the slightest idea’ about. Psssst………: Buksha began writing as a teenager, finishing her first book when she was eighteen… Buksha has written under the pseudonym Kshishtof Bakush, whom she sees as “a virtual grampa who’s seventy-four” and whose surname rearranges her own. Buksha’s diverse portfolio of publications includes poetry and story collections, and other novels, as well as a biography of artist Kazimir Malevich she has also worked as a journalist. Her futuristic The Detector focuses on a group of people held on a remote island and her Churov and Churbanov, a very Petersburg novel that was also a Big Book finalist, describes two classmates with similar names and intersecting fates while considering what might happen if hearts could be synchronized. This polyphonic novel, based on factual material, tells of a Soviet military factory in post-Soviet times. Fisher) won the National Bestseller Award and hit the Big Book Award shortlist. The Buksha File: Although Ksenia Buksha began publishing her writing in the early noughties, she began gaining broader notice in 2014, when her The Freedom Factory (translated into English by Anne O. She’s also an artist whose work often appears in the pages and on the covers of her own books. ![]() Petersburg-based poet and writer whose fiction combines humor, elements of speculative fiction, and, frequently, her city’s atmosphere.
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