Vladimir Tendryakov
Vladimir Tendryakov | |
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| Died | August 3, 1984 (aged 60) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Vladimir Tendryakov (
Biography
He was born at
In 1945, he relocated to Moscow and entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. A year later, he transferred to the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute; graduating in 1951.
He had begun to write while still a student and, from 1948 to 1953, published several stories in
After 1964, he served on the editorial board of the journal
Tendryakov as a writer was a foremost ethicist, and most of his works revolve around the problems of moral choice. Thus, his most famous novella "Three, Seven, Ace" (Тройка, Семерка, Туз) is about an ordinary citizen's fear to speak up and save an innocent man from a murder conviction. His novella "Potholes" (Ukhaby) describes an accident victim's life being sacrificed to blind adherence to rules and regulation. His novel Assassinating Mirages is Tendryakov's masterpiece, containing a lifetime of reflections on issues of ethics, violence, cruelty and difficulty of moral choice (the novel's plot revolves around a physicist's attempt to analyse History by creating a computer model of it, then removing the figure of
Tendryakov died of a stroke in Moscow in 1984, a year before the beginning of Perestroika.
Works
English translations
- Son-in-Law, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, [1956 or 1957], 162p.
- Three, Seven, Ace & Other Stories, tr. by David Alger, Olive Stevens and Paul Falla, London, Harvill Press, 1973, ISBN 0-00-271757-3, 252p. Contents:
- Three, Seven, Ace
- Justice
- Creature of a Day
- A Topsy-Turvy Spring: Stories, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1978, 413p.
- Donna Anna, from The Wild Beach and Other Stories, Ardis Publishers, 1992.
- Bread for a Dog, from 50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories, Academic Studies Press, 2011.
In Russian
- Находка (Nakhodka) (1965)
- Не ко двору (Ne ko dvory) (1954)
- Суд (Sud) (1960)
- Тройка, семерка, туз (Troika, semerka, tuz = Three, seven, ace) (1961)
- Ухабы (Ukhaby) (1956)
- Путешествие длиной в век (Puteshestvie dlinoj v vek), in Anthology of Modern Science Fiction in 25 volumes (Библиотека современной фантастики), volume 19, Moscow, Molodaya Gvardiya, 1965 — 1973.
- Ночь после выпуска (Noch' posle vypuska) (1972)
- Чистые воды Китежа (Chistye vody Kitezha)
- Покушение на миражи (Pokushenie na mirazhi)
Notes
- ISBN 0-415-23366-6p. 230
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