Makanin Video

[S. Lloyd]

        A VIDEO INTERVIEW
        with
        VLADIMIR MAKANIN

        WINNER OF THE

        BOOKER PRIZE FOR RUSSIAN NOVEL 1993

        conducted by Dr Valentina Polukhina
        24 October 1995
        Keele University

Vladimir Makanin is one of the most exciting Russian novelists, a writer
with an unusual gift and an unusual theme.  Despite the global nihilism in
Russian art and life today, Vladimir Makanin has stubbornly concerned
himself with ethical and spiritual problems.  Unlike many other Russian
writers, he is neither a moralist nor a nationalist.

Vladimir Makanin made his debut as a writer in 1965 with his novel Straight
Line.  Since then he has published many novels and short stories;  all of
them have been praised for their poetic intensity, visionary power and
thrilling psychological penetration.  Critics have rightly observed - and
mostly with a good deal of appreciation - that Makanin is meticulous in
conveying the feelings of the most ordinary people in the most ordinary
situations.  At the same time Makanin has the reputation of being the most
enigmatic of contemporary Russian writers to whom easy labels will not
apply.  His major objective, it seems, is to re-examine and re-introduce
abandoned values to a lost generation in a lost society.

In his video-interview Makanin talks about himself and his writing, as well
as about other writers, he also expresses his views on the situation in
Russia today.  This video- interview is a very useful tool for teaching
students ponimanie rechi na slukh and an important resource for those studying
Makanin.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

        ORDER FORM

Please send me . . . . . copies of video interview with Vladimir Makanin, 50
min. @ #11.00 (including postage and packing).

I enclose a cheque for . . . . . . ., payable to The Russian Poets' Fund

Dr Valentina Polukhina
Modern Languages (Russian)
Keele University
Newcastle, Staffs., ST5 5BG, UK





        A VIDEO INTERVIEW
        with
        VLADIMIR MAKANIN

        WINNER OF THE

        BOOKER PRIZE FOR RUSSIAN NOVEL 1993

        conducted by Dr Valentina Polukhina
        24 October 1995
        Keele University