"His books are a time document"

Today, the poet Igor Irteniev turns 60 years old Igor Irteniev should not be represented by the general public. Even those who did not read his books did not find his poems on the pages of our newspaper, they probably remember the television image of the poet-belt. Like any creative person, the biography of Igor Moiseevich is very stormy.

He studied at the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers, worked as a mechanic on television, served in the army in Transbaikalia. He began to be published in 1979 in Literary Russia, and he made his debut not with poems, but with a humorous story. Today, Igor Irteniev can safely apply the boring word "classic", but his poems are too good for this. On the eve of the anniversary of Igor Irteniev, the correspondent of the newspaper Kirill Reshetnikov was told by his colleague in the workshop, the poet Vladimir Vishnevsky.

"Irteniev has its own manner of prevailing over the years, it is always recognizable today. Its components are wit (from the word mind), the absolute sense of humor, poetic skills and versioning - in the best sense of the word! - Sophistication. In the media, he is not in demand as a challenge to call, not as a function, namely Irteniev. But I would like to warn" to "say" " Irteniev to the image of a good, but purely satirical poet of the belt, in the role of which he acts voluntarily and very qualitatively. Whose image is present, this is a layman who is perplexed or, on the contrary, something is applauded by some kind of ugliness that is happening around The method of delivery of one’s own irony is not through a direct journalistic text, but through the perception of today's layman with its sense of life, or, as a rule, its absence, this is one of the recognizable features of Irteniev. And there is only one life, and here it passes in this way, and not otherwise, Irteniev in their sequence is a serious artistic document of time, a bright page in our, so to speak, the latest story, marked with the name of Igor Irteniev.

The newspaper, proudly publishing the poems of Igor Irteniev on his pages, joins congratulations.

05.24.2007 / Kirill Reshetnikov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 93 of 05.25.2007.