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	Iskander, Fazil Abdulovich - MSN Encarta
		Fazil Abdulovich Iskander, (1929–), satirical writer from the country of Georgia.
		He attracted attention with Sozvezdie kozlotura (1966, translated into English as Goatibex Constellation), a satire on the bureaucratic control of agriculture.
		Sandro iz Chegema (1973, translated as Sandro of Chegem) sardonically explores the authoritarian politics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (which Georgia was part of until the USSR collapsed in 1991) and the cultural contrast between the distinctive traditions of Iskander’s native region of Abkhazia (now an autonomous republic) and Soviet influences.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762506037/Iskander_Fazil_Abdulovich.html (109 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		March 6 was the 75th birthday of Fazil Iskander, one of the most popular authors with intellectual readers in Russia.
		Fazil was born under the Soviet regime in a colorful mountainous area of the Caucasus, Abkhazia.
		Iskander was expert at "Aesopian language" allegory, and he also used the childs perception of reality to conceal his social satire regarding the events in the country in the 1920s-30s.
	english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2004-9-23 (610 words)

	Marina Kanevskaya, University of Montana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		In this paper I focus on one of the recurrent narrative devices in the art of Fazil' Iskander: what I call an "eloquent gesture." Iskander loves a visual image as he cannot imagine the inner movement without its expression in the external gesture.
		One of Iskander's most life-affirming strategies is to show the harmony between a child and an animal as in the stories "Evening Road" or "The First Errand.".
		Iskander's interpretation of a gesture reveals a three-tiered awareness: a character does one thing, thinking another, whereas the author perceives the innermost level of being.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2002/abstracts/Kanevskaya.html (450 words)

	Forbidden Fruit
		Fazil Iskander is one of the most notable soviet writers, whose prose — both in Russian and in Abkhazian languages — first became broadly known in the 1970s.
		He was born in 1929 in Abkhazia, an autonomous republic inside of Georgia, which in turn used to be one of the former Caucasus republics of the Soviet Union.
		In a short autobiographical story “Something About Myself,” Iskander writes: “I believe that to possess a good sense of humor one must reach a state of extreme pessimism, look down into those awful depths, satisfy oneself that there is nothing there either, and make one's way back again.
	www.soniamelnikova.com /id7.html (2827 words)

	Books \| Zhivago row in Russian schools
		While during the Yeltsin era the Kremlin kept the media brimmed with reminders of the horror and hard graft of life under Communism, the Putin administration's focus on nationalistic pride often results in a warm nostalgia for the glories of the Soviet era.
		Fazil Iskander, one of the signatories to the letter, told the Guardian: "Of course they don't want to speak about it but they want to smooth over Soviet history so that its tragic pages do not impact on the souls of schoolchildren."
		Mr Iskander said the most important books for study were Kon Armia by Isaak Babel and Doktor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4721165-99819,00.html (343 words)

	Russian Life : Fazil Iskander.(Calendar) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		They waited for many years, but not in vain: at the end of the 1950s, a new star shone on the faded literary sky.
		Fazil Iskander--practically the only writer of quality not banned by censors (although he was certainly not treated very kindly)--offered readers a true literary feast.
		Iskander was not afraid to seem slightly sentimental and simpleminded, and through his ingenious, apolitical texts, he managed to reach intellectual heights insurmountable
	static.highbeam.com /r/russianlife/march012004/faziliskandercalendar (193 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		According to Fazil Iskander, these are the people "with whom spiritual values are as tangible as material things".
		Iskander describes this life as he memorized it when a child, as it was reflected in myths, jokes and popular legends, and handed down from generation to generation.
		Having lived most of his life in Russia, Iskander is in his element with the Russian language.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch64_eng.html (1285 words)

	Iskander, Fazil -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Iskander grew up in Sukhumi and graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in 1954.
		Though Iskander is known mostly for his prose works, he started his career as a poet, publishing five volumes of verse between 1957 and 1964.
		More results on "Iskander, Fazil" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104410?tocId=9104410 (497 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		The Mir Kultury (World Of Culture) association of art and cultural figures has launched a cycle of gatherings under the title "A Benefit Party With An Autograph" to be held at the House of Journalists in Moscow.
		The hero of the first party was the outstanding Russian writer Fazil Iskander.
		Iskander's books convey the power of evil and darkness, the tragedy of human existence.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch196_eng.html (957 words)

	Russian Education, Required Reading Controversy - JRL 7-23-03
		But 13 well-known writers -- including poet Andrei Voznesensky and authors Boris Vasilyev, Vladimir Voinovich and Fazil Iskander -- sent an open letter to Education Minister Vladimir Filippov late last week urging him to drop authors whose books are vital to understanding the tragic Soviet history.
		But this would be impossible, bearing in mind that the main reason for updating it is to ease the burden of studies on already overloaded schoolchildren," he said.
		Iskander, however, questioned whether the changes were actually being made to ease the burden.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7261-11.cfm (814 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Iskander
		From Publishers Weekly The Ottoman Empire, known as the "sick man of Europe" in the 19th century, continues its slow, steady decline in the summer of 1899 as elderly Iskander Pasha (a descendant of a sultan's favorite courtier) and his well-born family gather at their seaside palace outside Istanbul.
		Iskander has four children: Salman, the eldest son; Halil, a general in the army; Nilofer, the daughter whose dramatic life is most fully explored; and her married stepsister, Zeynep.
		The plot coheres neatly as the stories interconnect: Nilofer married a Greek schoolteacher for whom her love cooled, leaving her miserable; when her husband is murdered, a victim of anti-Greek violence, she pursues a love affair with a barber's son.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Iskander (1297 words)

	Известия Науки - ON DEMOCRACY, MORALITY AND CONSCIENCE. FAZIL ISKANDER TALKS TO BENEDICT SARNOV
		Benedict Sarnov, a literary critic who’s known Fazil Iskander for years, had a meeting with the writer on the eve of his anniversary.
		S.: Fazil, we seem to have known everything about each other in the past.
		We arrived at the conclusion that we’d bought more stuff for ourselves and our apartment over the last few years than we did during all those years before.” Fazil, it’s obvious we’re not going to arrive at any conclusion here since we’re strangers to both economy and politics, to say the least.
	www.inauka.ru /english/article40286/print.html (2596 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		This is a paper cover book "Sandro of Chegem" by Fazil Iskander, translated from the Russian, stated "First Edition", i.e.
		Iskander grew up speaking Abkhazian and Russian, he writes in Russian.
		Abkhazia is familiar to his Russian readers as a seacoast resort area, ringed by dramatic mountains whose inhabitants live very long lives; as a source of tea, silk, fruit, and tobacco, and a part of the romantic and valorous history of the Caucasus."
	www.wordmax.com /w5640.htm (168 words)

	Iskander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin.
		ON ISKANDER AND HIS WORKS - GENERAL INFORMATION
		One of the winners of the Russian prize for the encouragement of the achievements in art and literature.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/ltrn101/iskander.htm (63 words)

	Their Myths and Ours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		To quote Fazil Iskander, best known for his novel Sandro of Chegem, which was published in mutilated form in the USSR in 1972 and in full in the United States in 1979: "Dictatorship presented a kind of wall which every honest writer was duty bound to hack away at with any instrument he possessed.
		When Iskander, for example, tells Laird, "I think the combination of seriousness or lyricism with irony and satire is much more interesting--more human," I nod along.
		My problems begin when a writer stops talking about literature--when Iskander, for example, speaks nostalgically of patriarchal Abkhazia, although earlier in the interview he had distanced himself from antidemocratic forces.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19991018/rosenberg (803 words)

	Levon Khatchatrian. Conceptual works 1979
		Mr.Iskander even doesn't suspect, that somewhere his name became a subject of art.
		Fazil Iskander (1929 -), prominent Soviet Russian writer.
		Many families have a tradition: to put on walls the photos of their ancestors, parents, friends, alive or gone.
	www.khatchatrian.ru /en/1979.html (599 words)

	★ Books by Fazil Iskander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Books By Fazil Iskander - featured: Gospel According To Chegem
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	www.bookpricecomparisonsearch.com /294129_fazil-iskander_0394723775gospelaccordingtochegeminternetbookstores.html (245 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 92044724 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		This is the only book, Russian or Western, that provides a comprehensive survey of developments in Russian prose over the last fifteen years of the Soviet regime.
		Deming Brown examines the work of established writers, such as Fazil Iskander and Andrei Bitov, together with many new figures who emerged during this period.
		Special attention is given to the evolving patterns of publication during the period: the rehabilitation of suppressed writers and the first publication of writings that had formerly belonged to the literary underground.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam025/92044724.html (177 words)

	Aleksei Leonov and Alexander Gafin become members of the American Pushkin Academy of Art
		Andrei Bitov, Boris Meserer, Genrikh Padva, Bella Akhmadulina, Boris Bushuyev, Eduard Drobitsky, Mikhail Gorbachev, Fazil Iskander, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Marlen Khutsev, Yuri Lyubimov, Anatoli Naiman, Vladimir Nemukhin, Maiya Plisetskaya, Edvard Radzinsky, Mark Rozovsky, Victor Shenderovich, Alexander Shirvindt, Dmitri Vinogradov became members of the academy.
		The American Pushkin Academy of Arts was established by the Pushkin Fund in 1999, which was founded in the United States two years earlier with the goal to draw attention of the public worldwide to the most important art and cultural events.
		There is also the possibility that exhibitions of Boris Meserer in New York and performances with Fazil Iskanderom will be organized.
	www.alfa-bank.com /media/news/2001/02/23 (419 words)

	Grinnell College Russian Department NOVOSTI
		The Spring 2001 Russian Artist-in-Residence Program has been postponed.
		Fazil' Abdulovich Iskander, one of the foremost contemporary Russian writers, was to have visited Grinnell, but dues to personal reasons is unable to come this year.
		We regret this turn of events; we will, however, attempt to continue to bring to Grinnell important Russian cultural figures.
	web.grinnell.edu /russian/news.html (378 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Myth of the Non-Russian: Iskander and Aitmatov's Magical Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		The Myth of the Non-Russian: Iskander and Aitmatov's Magical Universe
		Erika Haber argues that these authors juxtaposed their native myth with Soviet myth, thus undermining the Soviet prescription of national conformity in art by suggesting a plurality of worlds and truths.
		Top of Page : The Myth of the Non-Russian: Iskander and Aitmatov's Magical Universe
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0739105310 (216 words)

	RUSSIAN = ENGLISH Related Links
		SOVLIT.COM: Works of Soviet Literature summarized for those unable or too lazy to read them in the original (includes stories by Fazil Iskander and Bulat Okudjava translated by Sonia Melnikova)
		THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: “Forbidden Fruit,” by Fazil Iskander, translated by Sonia Melnikova; Course Syllabus: Masterpieces of Russian Literature
		ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: “Forbidden Fruit,” by Fazil Iskander, translated by Sonia Melnikova; Course Syllabus: Introduction to Russian Literature
	soniamelnikova.com /id5.html (238 words)

	SovLit.com - Soviet Literature Links
		Large Selection of the Prose of Fazil Iskander.
		Iskander's "Zhil Starik s Svoeiu Starushkoi", "Avtoritet", and "Malchik i Voina".
		Something Good Awaits Russia - 1999 Interview with Iskander.
	www.sovlit.com /sovlinks.html (3782 words)

	Russian 307/ English 170
		Film "The Sword and the Dragon" will be shown and discussed in class
		Comparative analysis of Two Fairy Tale Novels: Rabbits and Boa Constrictors by Fazil Iskander and Animal Farm by George Orwell.
		READ: "Rabbits and Boa Constrictors" by Iskander (the last 60 pp.).
	titan.iwu.edu /~mcll/courses/russian/russian307.html (607 words)

	Fazil Iskander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
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	imdb.com /name/nm0411225 (178 words)

	Boston College Front Row - Through the Eye of the Noodle: Translating from Theory into Practice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Through the Eye of the Noodle: Translating from Theory into Practice
		Susan Brownsberger, who has translated literary works by Andrei Bitov, Iuz Aleshkovsky, and Fazil Iskander among others, talks about her work as a translator of Russian literature into English.
		Her lecture is part of an alumni lecture series that celebrates the Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ 75
	frontrow.bc.edu /program/brownsberger (123 words)

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