Lit.ra. Selected Facebook Posts (2013–2020)

The famous St. Petersburg poet and literary critic Alexander Skidan puts a genre experiment in his new book based on his own Facebook pages: the machine algorithm of the alternation of his and other people"s records here is crossed with "applications", which are traditionally considered the periphery of literary creativity: notes in case, a working notebook, a working notebook. diaries. The arising design gains its own volume, grows and branches, like the amphitheater of an abandoned quarry - and the observation of this fascinates.
Alexander Skidan was born in Leningrad in 1965. The author of more than a dozen books, including the novel "Guide to N" and a collection of poems "Contamination" (2020) He translated modern American poetry and prose, theoretical works on literature, art, political philosophy. Prize winner Andrei Bely (2006), scholarshipist of the Foundation Joseph Brodsky (2018) Member of the group "What to do". Editor of the "Practice" department in the journal "New Literary Review