Alexander Goldstein (writer)
| Alexander Goldstein | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexander Leonidovich Goldstein 15 December 1957 Tallinn, Estonia |
| Died | 16 July 2006 (aged 48) Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Language | Russian |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Genre | Novels, essays |
| Notable awards | Russian Little Booker Prize, Anti-Booker prize, Andrei Bely Prize |
Alexander Leonidovich Goldstein (Russian: Александр Леонидович Гольдштейн; born 15 December 1957, Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic — 16 July 2006, Tel-Aviv, Israel) — was a Russian writer and essayist. He was awarded the Russian Little Booker Prize, the Anti-Booker prize and the Andrei Bely Prize (posthumously, in the category for prose).
Alexander Goldstein was born in Tallinn, the son of Leonid Goldstein, a man of letters. From his early childhood on, he lived in Baku, where he later studied literature at Baku State University. From 1991 he lived in Tel-Aviv.
Goldstein worked as a journalist for the newspaper Vesti, as well as other Russian-language publications, and sat on the editorial board of the Russian-Israeli journal . His articles were published in the books Расставание с Нарциссом (Parting from Narcissus) and Аспекты духовного брака (Aspects of Spiritual Matrimony). The first of these volumes, published in 1997, gained recognition as one of the most important books of the decade. For instance, the Russian literary academic wrote about Parting from Narcissus, and indeed Goldstein's work as a whole:
He was the first to describe that peculiar time in which we partly continue to live, but perhaps have already left behind. In any case, beginning with his first articles and his first book, Parting from Narcissus, which marked a huge cultural upheaval in the middle of the 1990s, he was the first to have the courage to say certain things, to push back certain borders and barriers. What he tried to do (and it's even worth asking how he managed to do it) was to find the language of the time.
In the opinion of Sasha Sokolov:
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