Autograph. Gladilin A. Walking ahead.

Autograph. Gladilin A. Walking ahead.
The Young Guard. 1962 238 p . Hardcover, size 13.2 x 20.5 cm. Scuffed binding, the pen broke through the title page when signing

Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin (August 21, 1935, Moscow — October 24, 2018, Chatillon, Hauts-de-Seine) was a Russian writer and dissident. Since 1976 he has lived in Paris.

He was born in the family of lawyer Tikhon Illarionovich Gladilin (1899-1961), a participant in the Civil War, a graduate of the Law Faculty of Moscow State University (1926), who at that time was an employee of the People's Commissariat of the Rubber Industry, and after the war — a people's judge. Mother — doctor Polina Moiseevna Dreitzer (since 1950 Gladilina, 1896-1975), a native of Grodno. The elder sister Galina (from her mother's first marriage) grew up in the family and in 1940 the younger brother Valery was born.

He worked as an electrician at the All-Union Research Institute of the Ministry of Machine Tool Construction.

In 1954-1958 he studied at the Gorky Literary Institute.

His "Chronicle of the times of Viktor Podgursky", published in the magazine "Youth" at the end of 1956, had a great resonance. The writer was only 20 years old, and this one already looked unusual for that time. The novel is written in the genre of "confessional prose" and examines the theme of anxiety and inner loneliness of a living and sincere person in a world of regulated values.

According to his own words, he left the Literary Institute without finishing it, and did not know what to do next. But unexpectedly I received an invitation to Moskovsky Komsomolets to work as the head of the Department of literature and art.

Later he worked as an editor at the Gorky Film Studio.

In the sixties, Gladilin was considered a talented and promising young Soviet writer. In 1964, he took part in writing the collective detective novel "The one who laughs laughs", published in the newspaper "Week".

Gladilin openly opposed the trial of A. Sinyavsky and Yu . Daniel.

The story "Forecast for tomorrow", written in 1972, was published only in the emigrant publishing house "Posev".

In 1976, Anatoly Gladilin was forced to emigrate from the USSR with his wife and daughter on an Israeli visa. Since then he has lived in Paris. In exile, Gladilin worked for Radio Liberty and Deutsche Welle.

He died at the age of 84 near Paris in Clamart.

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