Notes of a psychopath
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Notes of a psychopath
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Venedikt Erofeev—writer and playwright, author of the brilliant poem "Moscow-Petushki" (1970) and the play "Walpurgis Night" (1985)—is a huge and still largely unexplored phenomenon in Russian literature. In his short autobiography, Erofeev calls "Notes of a Psychopath" (1956–1958), begun at the age of seventeen, his "first noteworthy work," "the most voluminous and absurd of all I've written."
"Notes" remained unpublished for a long time, while in interviews Erofeev repeatedly emphasized that he considered the text worthy of publication, but he hardly believed it possible, as it is replete with "unexpected turns of phrase, to put it mildly." The complete, meticulously edited text of "Notes of a Psychopath" was only published in 2004. "When I was expelled from Moscow State University," Venedikt Erofeev recounted in an interview, "I was already writing the purely youthful 'Notes of a Psychopath.' My classmates, those who read it, said it was impossible, that writing like that was unacceptable. 'You, Erofeev, want to become famous throughout the entire university?' And I responded, 'I have much grander ambitions!'" And how could a man whose fame had long since transcended the capital and Petushki itself, and whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages, have answered this question any differently?
"Notes" remained unpublished for a long time, while in interviews Erofeev repeatedly emphasized that he considered the text worthy of publication, but he hardly believed it possible, as it is replete with "unexpected turns of phrase, to put it mildly." The complete, meticulously edited text of "Notes of a Psychopath" was only published in 2004. "When I was expelled from Moscow State University," Venedikt Erofeev recounted in an interview, "I was already writing the purely youthful 'Notes of a Psychopath.' My classmates, those who read it, said it was impossible, that writing like that was unacceptable. 'You, Erofeev, want to become famous throughout the entire university?' And I responded, 'I have much grander ambitions!'" And how could a man whose fame had long since transcended the capital and Petushki itself, and whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages, have answered this question any differently?
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