Valery Popov (writer)
Valery Georgievich Popov (Russian: Валерий Георгиевич Попов) (born December 8, 1939) is a Russian writer, "one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of fiction."[1] He has written about twenty books for adults and children as well as poems and screenplays.
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The emphasis is upon the narrator's complex reactions and the construction of a world that is unusual and even absurd. The events narrated appear random; the author is not concerned to tell a story about a specific character. He is more interested in the intonation and rhythmic precision of his stories, almost all of which are first-person narratives.[3]
His later works, "depicting surreal post-Soviet life, such as Days in the Harem (1994) and She-rascal (1996), utilize elements of the picaresque novel."[4]
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- ISBN 1571810285), p. 493.
- ISBN 0824207971), p. 228.
- ISBN 0810125978), p. 10.
- ^ Epstein, Russian Postmodernism, p. 494.