Igor Vishnevetsky

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name = Igor Vishnevetsky|

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|birth_name=Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky

|native_name = Игорь Георгиевич Вишневецкий

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|1|5}}

|birth_place = Rostov-on-Don, USSR|

| occupation = Poet, novelist, scholar, filmmaker, educator

| children = Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

| alma_mater = Moscow State University
Brown University

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Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky ({{langx|ru|link=no|Игорь Георгиевич Вишневецкий}}; born 5 January 1964){{cite web|url=http://www.litkarta.ru/world/usa/persons/vishnevetsky-i/|title=Игорь Вишневецкий. Поэт, филолог|website=Новая литературная карта}} is a Russian-born poet, novelist, screenwriter, and editor. He has been a contributor and editor in numerous literary journals, anthologies, and scholarly periodicals since the 1980s. Some of his work has been published in English, including a translated version of his first novel, Leningrad (2010).

Biography

Igor Vishnevetsky was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1964 to Georgiy and Alla Vishnevetsky. Vishnevetsky originally aspired to become a composer. He studied piano performance in school and audited music theory courses at Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatory before attending Moscow State University to pursue a degree in philology. After graduating in 1986, Vishnevetsky became an active member of the poetry and art scenes in Moscow and St. Petersburg prior to the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Vishnevetsky emigrated to the United States in 1992. Since that time his creative work has been done chiefly in North America.

In 1996 Vishnevetsky received a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the Department of Slavic Languages of Brown University. Subsequently, he taught at Emory University for five years. In the 2000s, he has also become a notable music historian, and is considered an authority on Sergei Prokofiev and the Russian-American composer Vladimir Dukelsky.

Vishnevetsky also was a visiting professor of Russian and Film at Carnegie Mellon University. During this time, he wrote his experimental novel Leningrad which describes the dehumanizing effects of the Finno-German siege of the city during World War II and deals with transformation of former Russian capital into a Soviet city. Praised for its insights into the minds of the people who experienced the collapse of everything associated with humanity, Leningrad won a 2010 award for the best fiction published in Russia's leading literary periodical Novyi mir. In 2012 it won a prestigious "New Verbal Art (Novaya Slovesnost', or NoS)" literary award.

Since 2010 Vishnevetsky had been working on a film version of Leningrad.{{cite web |url=http://www.prokhorovfund.ru/fund/news/695/?sphrase_id=10521 |title=Интервью с победителем премии "НОС"-2011 писателем Игорем Вишневецким |accessdate=19 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130417172238/http://www.prokhorovfund.ru/fund/news/695/?sphrase_id=10521 |archivedate=17 April 2013 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/24485493.html|title=Игорь Вишневецкий – лауреат премии НОС|website=Радио Свобода|date=16 February 2012 |last1=Волчек |first1=Дмитрий |last2=Кобрин |first2=Кирилл }} The film was completed in 2014 (a slightly shorter version in 2015) and received a number of awards.{{cite web|url=http://kinoart.ru/news/12-j-dukh-ognya-zavershilsya-pobedoj-rumynskoj-retro-dramy|title=12-й "Дух огня" завершился победой румынской ретро-драмы|date=6 March 2014 |publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://kinoart.ru/blogs/ejsk-2015|title=Ейск-2015. О доблестях, о подвигах, о славе|date=7 July 2015 |publisher=}} Film historian and critic Andrei Plakhov called it "an absolutely amazing experiment,",{{cite web|url=http://old.ugra-news.ru/article/39532 |title=Кинокритик Андрей Плахов: югорчане любопытны и не зашорены | Новостной портал ugra-news.ru |accessdate=11 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915132339/http://old.ugra-news.ru/article/39532 |archivedate=15 September 2016 }} while film critic Evgeny Maisel considered Visnevetsky's film "a true challenge to contemporary professional film production."{{cite web|url=http://kinoart.ru/blogs/dukh-ognya-2014|title=«Дух огня» 2014. Существования позор|date=31 March 2014 |publisher=}} Since 2018 he teaches English and Russian literature at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.{{cite news|url = https://www.troubonline.com/russian-author-shares-experience-life-story-through-teaching|title = Russian author shares experience, life story through teaching|work = The Troubador|publisher = Franciscan University of Steubenville|last = Pawsey|first = Maggie|date = 5 December 2018|accessdate = 14 December 2019}}

Vishnevetsky is an Eastern Orthodox Christian. His son is film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.

Bibliography

= Collected poetry =

Poems (Stikhotvoreniya). Moscow: ALVA-XXI, 1992. 42 pp.
Threefold Vision (Troynoe zrenie). New York: Slovo/Word, 1997. 88 pp.
Air Mail: Poems 1996-2001 (Vozdushnaya pochta: Stikhi 1996–2001). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2001. 96 pp. {{ISBN|5-86793-148-X}}
West of the Sun (Na zapad solntsa). Moscow: Nauka; Russkiy Gulliver, 2006. 278 pp. {{ISBN|5-02-034198-3}}
First Snow (Pervosnezhye). Moscow: Russkiy Gulliver, 2008. 76 pp. {{ISBN| 978-5-91627-009-9}}
Rhymologion (Stikhoslov). Moscow: Ikar, 2008. 126 pp. {{ISBN|978-5-7974-0184-1}}
Collected Poems 2002-2020 (Sobranie strikhotvorenii 2002–2020). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021. 308 pp. {{ISBN|978-5-4448-1572-4}}

= Fiction =

Leningrad: povest'. Moscow: Vremya, 2012. 160 pp. {{ISBN|978-5-9691-0796-0}}
Leningrad: A novel. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Champaign - London - Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013. 124 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-56478-902-0}}
Leningrad. Translated into Macedonian by Мirjana Naumovski. Skopje: Bata pres, 2014. 154 pp. {{ISBN|978-608-4654-68-1}}
Non-Elective Affinities (Neizbiratelinoe srodstvo[: сollected prose – novels Leningrad (2009), Islands in the Lagoon / Ostrova v lagune (2012), Non-Elective Affinities / Neizbiratelinoe srodstvo (2013-2017), short fiction Poet Who Was Not Forgotten / Nezabytyi poet (2012)]). Moscow: EKSMO, 2018. 384 pp. {{ISBN|978-5-04-093120-0}}
Leningrad. Traduzione a cura di Daniela Rizzi e Luisa Ruvoletto. Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2019. 216 pp. {{ISBN|978-88-7543-465-6}}
Le affinità non elettive: romanzo. Anno 1835. Traduzione, postfazione e cura di Iris Karafillidis; prefazione di Stefano Garzonio. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2023. 216 pp. {{ISBN|978-88-3339-891-4}}

= Academic works (selected) =

Tragic Subject in Action: Andrei Bely (Tragicheskiy sub'yekt v deystvii: Andrey Belyi). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000. 214 pp. {{ISBN|3-631-35238-7}}
[https://www.academia.edu/28773578/Sergei_Solovyov_as_a_Historian_of_Philosophy_and_Culture_1998_In_S_M_Solovyov_Vladimir_Solovyov_His_Life_and_Creative_Evolution_Vol_1_Fairfax_Va_Eastern_Christian_Publications_2001_P_IX_XXII Sergei Solovyov as a Historian of Philosophy and Culture. In S. M. Solovyov. Vladimir Solovyov: His Life and Creative Evolution. Vol. 1 (Fairfax, Va.: Eastern Christian Publications, 2001): IX-XXII.] {{ISBN|1-892278-05-7}}
Andrei Bely and Sergei Solovyov in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 295 (Thomson/Gale, 2004): 63–80, 369–376. {{ISBN|0-7876-6832-X}}
The "Eurasianist Tendency" in the Music of the 1920s and 1930s («Evraziyskoe uklonenie» v muzyke 1920-kh -1930-kh godov). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005. 512 pp.
Sergei Prokofiev (Sergey Prokof'ev). Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 2009. 704 pp. {{ISBN|978-5-235-03212-5}}
Arseny Tarkovsky in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 359 (Gale, 2011): 265–280. {{ISBN|978-0-7876-8177-7}}
The Literary Fate of Vasiliy Kondrat'ev (Literaturnaya sud'ba Vasiliya Konrdat'eva), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 3/157 (2019): 239-267
[https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/11/1103 Three Contemporary Russian Poets and Biblical Tradition: Sergey Zavyalov, Natalia Chernykh, Jaan Kaplinski], Religions, 11/13 (2022)