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Valeriĭ Popov - prozaik, memuarist, avtor knig 'Zhiznʹ udalasʹ', 'Chernilʹnyĭ angel', 'Komar zhivet poka poet', 'Pli͡asatʹ do smerti', 'Dovlatov' (v serii 'ZhZL'); predstavitelʹ peterburgskikh shestidesi͡atnikov; byl znakom s Andreem Bitovym, Sergeem Dovlatovym, Iosifom Brodskim, Viktorom Goli͡avkinym, Vladimirom Ufli͡andom.V knigakh Popova - vsegda grotesk i fantazii͡a, ego teksty nazyvai͡ut 'i͡arkimi, absoli͡utno lichnostnymi, shtuchnymi po fakture'.'"Raĭ na konchike pera" - kniga o volshebnoĭ svi͡azi literatury i zhizni. Znakomstvo geroev ėtoĭ knigi s goremykoĭ-pisatelem nevolʹno zastavli͡aet ikh dumatʹ: k dostoĭnomu li zavershenii͡u oni dvizhutsi͡a ili k pozoru? Da i sam avtor vrode dolzhen ne podkachatʹ, pokazatʹ sebi͡a.Zhiznʹ sozdaet literaturu - no i literatura vystraivaet realʹnostʹ'.Valeriĭ Popov'Pod vzgli͡adom Valerii͡a Popova oschastlivlennai͡a deĭstvitelʹnostʹ odnim ryvkom vykhodit k inomu, nedostupnomu v obychnoĭ zhizni urovni͡u intensivnosti. Potok zhizni pogloshchaet i obezvrezhivaet sluchaĭnostʹ. Pridi͡a k ėtomu otkrytii͡u v molodosti, Popov ne otreksi͡a ot nego i togda, kogda schastʹe perestalo bytʹ neizbezhnym. Luch sveta iz rannikh knig Popova dobiraetsi͡a do ego pozdnikh sochineniĭ, kak izluchenie nepogassheĭ zvezdy'.Aleksandr GENIS

Valery Popov is a novelist, memoirist, author of the books 'Life was a Success', 'Ink Angel', 'Mosquito Lives while Singing', 'Dance to Death', 'Dovlatov' (in the series 'ZhZL'); a representative of the St. Petersburg Sixties; was familiar with Andrei Bitov, Sergei Dovlatov, Joseph Brodsky, Victor Golyavkin, Vladimir Ufland.Popov's books are always grotesque and fantasy, his texts are called 'bright, absolutely personal, piece–by-piece in texture'.“Paradise at the Tip of a Pen” is a book about the magical connection between literature and life. The acquaintance of the heroes of this book with the unfortunate writer involuntarily makes them think: are they moving towards a worthy conclusion or to shame? And the author himself seems not to disappoint, to show himself.Life creates literature – but literature also builds reality."Valery Popov'Under the gaze of Valery Popov, the blessed reality in one leap reaches a different level of intensity, inaccessible in ordinary life. The flow of life absorbs and neutralizes randomness. Having come to this discovery in his youth, Popov did not renounce it even when happiness ceased to be inevitable. A ray of light from Popov's early books reaches his later writings like the radiation of an unquenched star.'Alexander GENIS