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Revision as of 14:17, 30 October 2007 by Larvatus (talk | contribs) (fix link)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Dmitry Galkovsky (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Галковский), (born 4 June 1960) is a Russian novelist, essayist, philosopher, blogger, and author of the monumental novel-treatise The Endless Dead-End (Бесконечный тупик).
Galkovsky began his career as a menial worker at the Likhachev Automotive Factory. He claims to have feigned a mental disorder to avoid compulsory military service. He earned a degree in philosophy by attending night sessions of the Moscow State University. His magnum opus, consisting of fifteen hundred hand-written pages, was partly published in the liberal journal Novy Mir (Новый Мир) and the nationalist periodical Nash Sovremennik (Наш Современник). Published in full in 1997, the novel consists of a commentary to a text addressed to the Russian national character and the philosopher Vasily Rozanov.
Galkovsky regards Russia as a crypto-colony of Great Britain. He fashions himself as a Friend of Ducklings (Друг Утят), inviting his fans to join their putative movement said to aim at planetary domination. Galkovsky is known for courting controversy with statements denouncing homosexuals, Jews, Gypsies, and Métis people taking part in Russian society and culture, for undermining its "European project". His current crusade involves his dismissal as a contributor for the magazine Russkaya Zhizn (Русская Жизнь), an organ of the crypto-loyalist political party Fair Russia, strong supporters of Vladimir Putin. Galkovsky was fired for disparaging recently deceased poet Dmitri Prigov in his LiveJournal blog. He has retaliated with an appeal to Queen Elizabeth II and threats to allow one of his anonymous ducklings to publish private email correspondence of closeted homosexuals among his former colleagues. He often uses Russian punitive psychiatric categories such as "epileptoid psychopath" to diagnose and disparage his online adversaries.
Awards
Awarded the literary prize "Antibooker" of 1997; declined to accept the monetary award.
Links
- Virtual server of Dmitry Galkovsky
- "Utinaya Pravda" («Утиная ПРАВДА»), the site of Dmitry Galkovsky's Publishing House
- Fan site dedicated to Dmitry Galkovsky
- Galkovsky's LiveJournal blog
- Report of the 1997 Russian Booker and Antibooker Awards
- Translation of Galkovsky's 1994 survey of Russian politics and philosophy
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