Greetings, wanderer.
My name is Ivan.
I write fiction, essays and translate old Russian texts. In my work, I explore contemporary and near-future problems often dissecting them from whimsical and darkly comical angles. I love literature, stylised prose, allegories, absurd and satire, weirdo and obsessed characters talking and thinking out loud, magic realism, a mixture of real and surreal, sci-fi, fantasy. These things have been influencing me a lot and perhaps some of them could be traced in my work, too. But this will be up to you to decide.
If you like the idea of reading something like I described above, … well, you know what to do.
My work
If you don’t know where to start…
Here are four short stories:
The Blue Pill Of Atlantis is a very short story about a forgotten legacy.
Phantomic Rabbits is a story about one mysterious novelist giving his first podcast interview.
Brainlephant is a short story about a guy who gets addicted to fortune cookies.
Bewildering Wilderness is a short story about one drunken quest.
and three essays:
Man Against Marketing is about a new kind of old narrative conflict in which we are all engaged.
It’s All Just An Old Videogame – musings about the nature of memories and nostalgia.
Where is that City N? – On Chekhoverse, antiplaces, and my hometown.
and two translations (from Russian):
Eisenstein about Joyce is a translation of a fragment from Sergei Eisenstein’s memoirs written about his encounters with James Joyce.
Rules For Aspiring Authors by Chekhov is another translation of a quite obscure piece with plenty of footnotes included.
You can find all my work here.
Contact
The best way to contact me is to send an email (hey@ioann.xyz).
