The writer Yuri Mamleev died

In Moscow, in the 84th year of his life, a writer, playwright, philosopher Yuri Mamleev died. This was reported by the editor-in-chief of the television channel "Day-TV" Andrei Fefelov.

Yuri Mamleev was born on December 11, 1931 in Moscow. In 1956 he graduated from the Moscow Forestry Institute, taught mathematics. However, his main occupation was literary work.

In 1974, Mamleev, due to the impossibility of publishing his works in the USSR, emigrated to the United States. There he taught and worked at the University of Cornell, performed at other prestigious universities in America.

In 1983, Mamleev moved to France, where he taught Russian literature and language at the Medon Institute of Russian Culture, and then at the Institute of Oriental Civilizations in Paris.

After the fall of the communist regime, Yuri Mamleev was one of the first to come to Russia. Since the beginning of the 90s, 27 of his books have been published. Mamleev’s works were published in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hebrew, Chinese.

Mamleev is the founder of the literary direction, which he called metaphysical realism. Among his most famous works are the novels of “connecting rods”, “another”, “peace and laughter”, “wings of horror”, “wandering time”. Mamleev - Laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize (1993), Pushkin Prize (Germany, 2000), Prize "Literature" of the Union of Writers (2008).

From 1994 to 1999, Mamleev taught Indian philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. The two main philosophical works are “Fate of Genesis” and “Eternal Russia”.