Klekh, Igor´ (1952)
Gol´dman, Adol´f I., artist
Intsident s klassikom. M., Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, [1998.] 253 p.
(Biblioteka zhurnala 'Solo'. Russkii PEN - Tsentr.)
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8 vo, original binding designed by Adolf Goldman. VERY GOOD.

FIRST BOOK BY THE AUTHOR. FIRST EDITION.

Igor Klekh is a member of the Union of Russian Writers and the Russian PEN Club.Collected stories introducing one of Russia's best contemporary writers. Igor Klekh emerges as a writer from the crossroads of Europe -- Western Ukraine -- influenced by the great Russian literary tradition as well as the languages and dialects of both East-Central Europe and his native country. As one of the brightest lights to come out of the postperestroika literary scene, Klekh's work has been welcomed as a synthesis of multiple literary traditions and celebrated as some of the most breathtakingly original prose of recent years.
The publication of his novella Kallimakh's Wake in 1993, and his work since, has drawn comparisons to Jorge Luis Borges -- for the blurring of boundaries between forms and styles; to Nikolai Gogol's work in both Russian and Ukrainian; to Umberto Eco's use of esoteric knowledge; and to the stylistic innovations reminiscent of Latin American magical realists. Ihor Klekh passes over landscapes as intimate as the terrain between fathers and sons and as broad as the wild and mysterious Carpathian Mountains.