Lev Danilkin is a writer and literary critic, the author of biographical works on Yuri Gagarin (for the ZhZL series) and Alexandr Prokhanov (The Man with the Egg). Danilkin’s latest subject is Lenin, and his book on the man became one of the central literary events surrounding the centenary of the 1917 revolution. During his lecture for the literary club, Danilkin will talk about his work on the book and his relationship with a figure who still causes controversy a century later.
Admission is free of charge. The number of participants is limited. Please register in advance.
A series of meetings for people interested in contemporary prose and poetry will include theoretical lectures on literature and book presentations as well as short poetry and prose readings. Every writer who has been invited to the literary readings is connected in some way either with St Petersburg itself or with the writing that the city inspired. In this way, one of the programme’s thematic tenets will be the interaction between the city and the text, characters and heroes of prose fiction and research works. This is further enhanced by the particular mythical richness of New Holland island, located on the border with St Petersburg’s Kolomna, the city’s most important “literary” region.
Along with the most important and influential representatives of the St Petersburg literary scene, also invited to take part are authors whose creative and research interests are connected to an extent with the reevaluation of St Petersburg’s writings, its history and mythology. Writers including Alexander Ilyanen, Alexander Skidan, Pavel Pepperstein, Alexandra Petrova, Lev Danilkin and Alexey Konakov will address the meetings’ audiences.
