Open AccessSettling in distant worlds
Author(s) -
Alexander Ilichevsky,
Екатерина Сергеевна Максимова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
praktiki and interpretacii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2415-8852
DOI - 10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-7-16
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , persian , metaphysics , art history , poetry , history , art , philosophy , visual arts , theology , literature
Alexander Ilichevsky is a writer and poet, author of the novels “Ai-Petri” (2007), “Matisse” (2007), “Persian” (2010), “Mathematician” (2011), “Newton’s Drawing” (2020). Winner of the “Kazakov Award” (2005), winner of the “Russian Booker” (2007) and the “Big Book” (2010 and 2020). In the P&I issue dedicated to distance, Alexander Ilichevsky talks about astronauts and airships, looks at Jerusalem from the height of the twentieth floor and tries to reconcile physics with metaphysics. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova. MA students of the programme “Literature in cross-cultural perspective” A. Alentyeva, A. Drozhzhina, F. Lazarev, A. Leshchinskaya, N. Minnikova, D. Pikalova, N. Chibrikov contributed with the questions for the interview.