Russian philosopher, writer and publicist Dmitry Evgenievich Galkovsky: biography, creativity and interesting facts

Galkovsky Dmitry Evgenievich - a philosopher and a writer. He is the author of the "Endless Dead End", excerpts from which were published in authoritative periodicals. The largest publication took place in the "New World" (1992). In 1993, "Infinite Dead End" was nominated for the Booker Prize. Also Dmitry Evgenyevich works as a freelancer for the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. In it, the author published many sensational materials. In this article, we will present a biography of the writer and briefly tell about his work.

Study and work

Galkovsky Dmitry Evgenievich was born in Moscow in 1960. The boy's mother worked as a dressmaker, and his father worked as an engineer. In 1977 Dmitry graduated from school No. 51 (with a slant in German). Then I entered the university four times. Between the attempts, he worked as an adjuster of the dust-collecting equipment at the Likhachev plant. He also worked as a laboratory assistant at the Academy of Armored Troops of Malinovsky. Soon Dmitry was drafted into the army. To avoid service, the young man pretended to be mentally ill.

In 1980, Galkovsky entered the Moscow State University (Faculty of Philosophy) for the evening department. Six years later he graduated successfully. The young man could not get a job, so he had to earn money for living by illegally replicating and selling illegal literature.

Writing

In 1987, Dmitry Evgenievich Galkovsky decided to try himself in a new field. She wrote a philosophical novel called "Infinite Dead End."

The next two years Dmitry closely cooperated with the magazine "Paragraph", owned by Alexander Morozov. For a time, Galkovsky worked under the auspices of Vadim Kozhinov. The latter arranged it in the publication "Our Contemporary" and helped with the publication of a fragment of the "Endless Dead End" in "Soviet Literature."

Other excerpts were printed in 1991-1992 in Continent, Litgazete and Novy mir. The latter also published an article entitled "Soviet Poetry" (No. 5, 1992) and the script for the painting "Friend of Ducklings" (No. 8, 2002). But this did not bring Galkovsky significant money, so I had to work as a teacher at the Moscow Theater Lyceum. Dmitry Evgenievich also participated in various commercial projects.

Own website and magazine

In 1992-1993, a series of polemical articles appeared in the Russian press ("Stuchky's children", "Elimination of a shortcoming", "Broken compass points the way", "Underground"). After that, Galkovsky Dmitry Evgenievich decided to stop cooperation with the Russian press, which, according to the writer, was engaged in harassing his work.

In 1996-1997, the philosopher published his magazine "Broken Compass" (only 3 issues came out). And in 1998, Galkovsky's personal website was opened. In 2001-2003, Dmitry Evgenievich's "Christmas stories" appeared in such publications as "Conservative", "Literature Day" and "Nezavisimaya Gazeta". In 2002, Galkovsky compiled and published an anthology of Soviet poetry "Utkorech." Since October 2003, the philosopher began to lead the "Living Journal". At the same time, his collection of articles entitled Propaganda was published. In 2005-2006 Dmitry Evgenievich was published many times in the Internet newspaper "Vzglyad". In 2007, the first official publication of the "Infinite Dead End" was published (in fact it was already the third one). We go further.

Galkovsky Dmitry Evgenievich: the characteristic of creativity

For the artistic, journalistic and philosophical prose of the writer, the ironic play on "other people's words" and the aesthetics of the fragment are characteristic (these traits can be seen in Rozanov, the key character of the "Endless Dead End"). The company Dmitry Evgenievich contrasts his "I" - a vulnerable and ironic ("Galkovsky", "Lonely" and others). Also for the writer's world, the image of the father is important. A key theme that runs through the author's entire work is "metaphylosophy." And Galkovsky focuses more on understanding the ideas of previous eras. Especially the writer is impressed by Russian religious philosophy.

In his later works, Galkovsky Dmitriy Evgenievich constantly uses images and metaphors ("aliens", "mushrooms", "octopuses" - cryptolonists, "decompose on tatami" - the most favorite occupation of special services, "Zhidovsky murzilki" - anonyms in LJ). Since the mid-1990s, the writer was fond of the Internet and network games. Although the "Infinite Dead End" was created as a hypertext before the beginning of the era of informatization.

The historical concept of Galkovsky

In short, it boils down to the following. The Russian Empire is a strong, enlightened state that was the representative of the European beginning. There are two reasons for its crisis and death. Firstly, this incomplete subordination of the Asian elements ("gypsies" and peasants) to European civilization. Secondly, active activity of the secret services of Great Britain, which used hostile religious, ethnic and social groups to undermine the army and power. Thus, they destroyed the Russian state.

Criticism

In 1990-2000, the writer Dmitry Evgenievich Galkovsky was very popular. Reviewers and critics did not entirely agree with the author. Nevertheless, they considered his work an outstanding phenomenon. For example, Andrei Vasilevsky (Glavred of the New World) called the "Endless Dead End" one of the most significant novels of the 80s, in which the author "was able to create his special, almost magical" Galkov "space." At the same time the editor adds that the most successful was the text of the very first edition.

Critic and publicist Ilya Smirnov gives a negative assessment of the creativity and ideology of Galkovsky. And his "Infinite Dead End" is called not a novel, but a "Black Hundred treatise" and "political journalism." A high evaluation of the literary community of the activities of Dmitry Evgenevich Smirnov explains the sign of its degradation.

In recent years, Galkovsky's work has been repeatedly studied. Literary critics have devoted a number of dissertations to him. The philosophical and journalistic views of Galkovsky were also analyzed by other specialists. The historian IV Yurchenko included the philosopher's judgments about degradation in the broad context of international social thought. Political scientist V. A. Kovalev assesses the writer as "a popular Russian marginal, as well as an outstanding writer and philosopher". And the sociologist A. S. Vatoropin attributes the hero of this article to "modern representatives of Russian self-consciousness."

Galkovsky Dmitry Evgenievich: awards

In 1997, the writer became a laureate of the "Antibuker" prize. But she refused to receive it. Here's how Dmitry Evgenievich Galkovsky, whose biography is presented above, commented on this in his interview: "I want the future intellectuals to earn their living by their own labor, rather than begging for their robbery from countless benefactors and patrons."