Settling in distant worlds

Abstract

Alexander Ilichevsky is a writer and poet, author of the novels “Ai-Petri” (2007), “Matisse” (2007), “Persian” (2010), “Mathematician” (2011), “Newton’s Drawing” (2020). Winner of the “Kazakov Award” (2005), winner of the “Russian Booker” (2007) and the “Big Book” (2010 and 2020). In the P&I issue dedicated to distance, Alexander Ilichevsky talks about astronauts and airships, looks at Jerusalem from the height of the twentieth floor and tries to reconcile physics with metaphysics. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova. MA students of the programme “Literature in cross-cultural perspective” A. Alentyeva, A. Drozhzhina, F. Lazarev, A. Leshchinskaya, N. Minnikova, D. Pikalova, N. Chibrikov contributed with the questions for the interview.