Victor Ulin
I do not write books, I live them. When the idea of a new book comes to me I transform myself to my character and start to live in his world. For this period this made-up world is more realistic for me than one where my physical body exists. There is no problem for me “how” to write and “what about”. I need only time to discribe what I see in other reality.
After finishing every next thing and being up from my illusions I every time get stressed. I feel shocked and don’t want to be back.
It makes me dreaming of a new trip to the parallel world and I plange into a new idea.
I was born in Ufa in 1959. My first education was the Leningrad University, the department of math and mechanic. Then the post-graduate studies followed. The second one was the Literary institute. If the communist regime hadn’t collapsed and USSR hadn’t ruined, I would still keep a quite well-to-do life stile of a mathematician. I would produce literary texts in my spare time risking to feel confused for what I happened to write yesterday when reading them again next morning.
But life got a quick change.
I used to work for science, education system, media and various business structures. I even had chance to take part in the last all-union Young Writers conference in former USSR (Moscow, 1989). I kept writing in the last 90-s with some intervals. My works were published in the newspapers of Krasnojarsk, Leningrad, Moscow, Sverdlovsk and Ufa, in the magazines «Civil aviation » and «Oktober», in literary miscellany «The new spring» (Ufa, Bashkir publishing house, 1988), «Support point» (Leningrad, Lenizdat, 1991), «Belskie prostory» (Ufa, «Kitap», 1993).
I have also one published book “Dispersal field”. My next book “A beauty contest” was about to be published but new national policy in former Soviet republics stopped this process. The quantity of Russian language books were reduced there in that period.
In 2006 my novel “The height of the cercal” and a story ‘Blame’ made me the nominee in the contest, that was held by publishing house ‘ Sova’.
Currently I’m keeping writing. I’m full of energy and have a lot to offer for publishing and reading.
Events
Published manuscripts
| «Dispersal field» | «Kitap», Ufa, 11 cop 1993 | |
| Mistake | 2007 | |
The dead paradise
Documentary prose (memoirs)
18, 23 a.l.
The visit to other country is not an extraordinary thing for Russians today. And what about visit to the past, that looks now odd and sad? This novel put us into the summer of 1989 in Dresden and some other German towns, where the enamoured of Germany author=main hero used to work in the international student group.
No guide in the world presents you Germany in such a way, accompanies you in the streets of its towns. No guide shows you the German history with such a warm feeling to its past and such affection.
“The dead paradise” is not just a report about the trip.
It is a serious reflection over the history of this country, an attempt to conceive the reason of Nazism and mass hysteria that Germans came through. Historical excurses take turns with emotional erotic feelings of twenty four year old guy. This mix makes you to be back after your closing the book and start reading from the very beginning.
This book would be interesting for people “over thirty” who share the tendency towards national identification and feel nostalgia for days of their youth that fell on the period of USSR collapse. It can also attract German readers as a view of German life witnessed by Russian.
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