Writer Mikhail Uspensky: biography
The famous Russian writer Mikhail Uspensky has recently left this world. He lived only 64 years. But there were his books, which many have yet to read.
Facts from biography
The future writer, Uspensky Mikhail Glebovich,was born in 1950 in the ancient Altai city of Barnaul. The young man showed a rather early taste for literature, as well as a desire to realize himself in this direction. His first poetic publication took place in the provincial periodical press, when Michael was only seventeen years old. This largely determined his future life.
Mikhail Uspensky received his professional education at the Faculty of Journalism at the Irkutsk University, one of the oldest and most respected educational institutions in Siberia.
In the great literature
The road to success is rarely easy. Mikhail Uspensky, whose books are now recognized by the literary community and by a wide range of readers, was felt by the writer only in 1988, when his first book, The Evil Eye, was published in Krasnoyarsk. And before that there were many years of hard work, casual earnings and rare publications, mainly in Siberian periodicals. But the stories from the collection were well received by both simple readers and literary critics. Some of them began to live an independent life - they were performed from the stage by actors of the colloquial genre.
Genre synthesis and semantic diversity
Mikhail Uspensky himself, whose books criticism more oftenall attributed to science fiction, refused to recognize the clear boundaries between the genres of literature. Such a division, according to the author, significantly reduced the potential of the initial impulse to creativity, with which the writer opens a blank piece of paper or touches the computer keyboard. And the synthesis of different genres opens for the creator completely new, previously unexplored expressive possibilities. It is the embodiment of these principles and approaches that the atypical representative, Mikhail Uspenskiy, most clearly manifested himself in national fiction. All the author's books are so characteristic that they do not have a clear boundary between fantasy and reality, between sophisticated fiction and everyday everyday life.
In the science fiction community
Any writer is pleased to see that he is reading andunderstand the audience, to which his works are addressed. But even more important is to get recognition from fellow feuders who work in the same direction and who are competitors in the struggle for the readers' attention. Mikhail Uspensky in this sense was a happy man - his services to his favorite genre of literature were recognized in the community of science fiction writers at the highest level. Back in 1993 he was bestowed with his personal award the most outstanding coryphaeus of the genre - Boris Natugovich Strugatsky. Honorary regalia was called "Bronze Snail". And it was far from the only one. Moreover, Boris Strugatsky blessed his younger by age and position in the hierarchy of his colleague for the continuation of the cycle of classic novels about the Midday World. This story was called "Snake Milk". It continues the themes and images from the books of the Strugatsky brothers.
Public position
With all the recklessness of immersion in the worldliterary images, Mikhail Uspensky could not stay away from acute social conflicts and socio-political processes in the Russian society. A particularly high degree of intensity of political passions and contradictions reached the winter of 2011-2012, during the parliamentary and presidential elections. These days, Mikhail could often be seen at rallies and marches of the opposition. He belonged to the number of unconditional opponents of the existing political regime in the country. It is even a little surprising that in his literary works Michael Uspensky almost does not mean his political predilections.
