Ilya Masodov
Edition of the trilogy The Darkness of Your Eyes (2021) in front of a sculpture of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

Ilya Masodov (unknown; some sources state 1966) is a modern Russian writer.[1]

Biography

According to the publisher, Ilya Masodov was born in 1966 in Leningrad. He worked as a school teacher for a while and moved to Germany. There is no trustworthy evidence of the existence of the writer. An agent of the writer, Dmitry Volchek, stated that Masodov is a real person, but Volchek himself is not aware of the fate of the writer after 2003.[2]

Debate over the identity of Masodov and the authorship

There is a discussion about whether Ilya Masodov is a real writer. According to one theory, Masodov is a pseudonym derived from the names of other Russian writers such as "Ma-" for Mamleev, "-so-" for Sorokin and "-dov" for Radov (or less commonly, for "Dovlatov"). Other people consider the name as an anagram from von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade.[3] It is also argued that Ilya Masodov is a project of Marusya Klimova or her publisher named Dmitry Volchek.[3]

Style and language

Some critics found Masodov uses the "pared to the bones" creative approach of Vladislav Krapivin.[4] Masodov works between two genres, namely "Necrorealism" and "guro"[5] or "vampire horror".[6]

Works

Trilogy of novels 2001:

  • The Darkness of Your Eyes (Мрак твоих глаз) - a mocking and surreal story about a teenage vampire girl who travels to Black Moscow in order to raise Lenin from the dead.[7][8]
  • The Heat of Your Hands (Тепло твоих рук)
  • The Sweetness of Your Soft Lips (Сладость губ твоих нежных)

Additionally, a publisher of Masodov has stated that there is at least one unpublished novel by the author.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Stasulane A. et al. Birgit Menzel; Michael Hagemeister & Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (eds.), The New Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions //Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum. – 2014. – Т. 2. – №. 1. – C. 126-129.
  2. ↑ m.polit.ru - Volchek
  3. 1 2 Kommersant.ru
  4. ↑ gorky.media (2020-12-28). "Кто умер в 2020 году". «Горький» (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  5. ↑ "Книга Илая". darkermagazine.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  6. ↑ rg.ru
  7. ↑ Ryzhakov: Best 100 contemporary novels
  8. ↑ Куликова Д. Л. ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ ХОРРОРА В «МРАКЕ ТВОИХ ГЛАЗ» ИЛЬИ МАСОДОВА //Филоlogos. – 2021. – №. 2. – С. 47-53
  9. ↑ gorky.media (2019-06-02). "Идиотская история с музыкантом Моби". «Горький» (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
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