Alexander Ageev Biography

The biography was born in Ivanovo.

He studied at the Ivanovo Energy Institute, then at the Faculty of Philology of Ivanovo University and in his graduate school. Candidate of Philology, teacher of the Department of Soviet Literature-Associate Professor with the city of Practical Gastroenterology of Reading ”in the network Russian magazine-the result of this period was summed up by the collection of articles“ Gazeta, gloss, the Internet in three Wednesdays ”Academician-founder of the Academy of the Russian Modern Literary Academy of the journals“ Literary Review ”,“ Banner Direct speech is something in the genre itself that allows professionally written reviews, even torn from newspaper-journal context and placed into collected works, not to turn into a herbarium, but to carry your context in yourself.

Review - you want it or not - the genre of "direct action", the strongest tool for influence on all participants in the so -called "literary process", that is, the writer, reader, publisher. What have we acquired for 20 years of relative freedom? So far, not very reflected experience. Well this is a happiness-you work in a rich weekly, you write, like a hard labor, an article in every number, in the second year of service you suddenly calls you the owner of the publication, a banker and so on the other way, and says: “What are you writing?

Are you sold to world imperialism? Do you want to live sweetly? The pseudonym wrote for the first time in his life! It was printed as a “reader’s letter”. The fragile balance of the desired freedom must be studied. This pathos, often unlucky, but always present in the foundation, is aimed, as it seems, first of all, to defend ideas about literature as an unconditional value, doubts in which are appropriate only to a certain limit and, rather, for private occasions.

The division of “cultural” - “barbaric” or even “sacred” - “profane”, although this, it would seem, is not at all from the Ageevsky world is constantly present in the mind of criticism and is often and clearly manifested in its texts. Mikhail Edelstein is interested in the deep contradiction of a living person, which, knowing about the "meaninglessness" of his business, is still engaged in them.

Although tell Ageev something about "rapture in battle"-it will only grunt. And - it’s scary to utter - with pleasure. Andrey Nemzer.