The writer Andrei Bitov died

The writer, founder of postmodernism in Russian literature, Andrei Bitov died in the 82nd year of his life. This was reported on Facebook by the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich.

Andrei Bitov was born in 1937 in Leningrad in a family of a lawyer and architect. He studied at the Leningrad Mining Institute, where he participated in the work of Litobobeaning under the leadership of the poet and translator Gleb Semenov.

In 1971, Bitov finished work on the novel “Pushkin’s House”, which he wrote under the impression of the trial of Joseph Brodsky. The novel, considered one of the main samples of Russian postmodernism, diverged in Samizdat and was first published only in 1978 in the United States. Bitov was also one of the founders of the Samizdat almanac “Metropol”, in which the works of famous Russian writers who did not pass censorship and not allowed for official publication were published.

Bitov participated in the creation of the Russian Pen Club and since 1991 was its president.