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Mikhail Armalinsky
DOBROVOLNIYE PRIZNANIYA - VINUZHDENAYA PEREPISKA
(Voluntary Confessions - An Unwilling Correspondence)
in Russian, novel, 1991, 312 p. ISBN 0-916201-09-0; $7
Mikhail Armalinsky is the author of thirteen books
of poetry and fiction. His publication of Secret Journal
1836-1837, by A. S. Pushkin brought him to notoriety; its authorship has
been attributed to Armalinsky himself by some Russian
critics.
He is also the editor of the first Almanac of Russian Erotic Literature, Soitiye
(Copulation).
In his novel, Armalinsky, with his acute interest
in the subject of sex, displays depths of male and female psychology hitherto
untouched in Russian literature.
Armalinsky has created not just an erotic novel but
a piece of literature that relates his philosophy of love and sex with shocking
sincerity.
The novel, although epistolary by form, exploits different genres: a story and
essay, poetry and journalism.