The emotional and intense works of Linor Goralik are vivid and convincing pictures of the spiritual life of a person. The heroes of her novels are dominated by all-consuming feelings, recognizable against the background of worldly realities.
Biography
Linor Goralik was born in Dnepropetrovsk in 1975. At the age of eleven, she chose the name Linor and got a passport with a new name. In 1989, the family moved to Israel. Linor, not finishing school, in 1990 entered the University of Ben-Gurion, was fond of mathematics from 10 years old, so there was no question about choosing a profession - she began to study as a programmer.
Immediately I began to earn extra money by teaching - preparing for exams at Israeli universities. A little later, to pay for her studies, she took up programming. In 1994, she left the university, her education remained incomplete, but she began to work in her specialty.
In the early 2000s, Linor Goralik moved to Moscow and works as a business consultant. Collaborates with various publications, her articles were published in the magazines “Ezh”, “Russian Journal”, in the newspapers “Vedomosti”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, “Grani”, broadcast on books on “Radio Russia”, and a column on “Snob” . Representing the culture of Israel , the Eshkol project, where various events are regularly held, has become its main focus.
To be a writer
The first literary experiments of the Israeli writer Linor Goralik represent individual phrases, fragments of everyday speech, observations that she kept in writing. With the development of the Internet, Linor records went on the web. Creating the first texts, Linor discovered that during the time spent in Israel, the language environment in Russia has undergone changes. And she plunged into it, recording the tiniest facts of communication.
The writer is sure whether the blog turns into a book or not. It is important that a person can read what he is looking for, and any meeting between a writer and a reader is wonderful - both paper books and texts on the Internet. Linor adheres to the theory that there is no text “online” or “offline”, it is bad or good. It is also the fact that “writing texts” and “being a writer” are completely different activities.
Literary activity
Linor Goralik became seriously interested in texts and poems at the age of 25. According to the writer herself, her first texts are “absolutely monstrous” - what she “wrote out” at 25, many of her colleagues - at 14-17. Next to her were people who were ready to help: they pointed out errors, suggested what literature to read. She is now interested in the works of Pashchenko, Kukulin, Fanailova, Lvovsky, Dashevsky, Zhadan.
Goralik is a successful translator from Hebrew. Thanks to her, many learned about the Israeli writer E Keret. Linor translated the books “Seven Fat Years” and “Azesm”, worked on the collections “Days Like Today” and “When the Buses Died”. Linor is the manager of several commercial and charitable cultural projects. In 2003, she became the winner of the Triumph Prize, which K. Raikin, M. Pletnev, O. Yankovsky and others received at one time.
Features of the works
The works of Linor Goralik are distinguished by their emotionality, intense intonation and the fragmentary character of oral speech. These qualities are pronounced in short prose: sketches, stories, monologues. Her books are vivid emotional pictures of the human soul, recognizable by readers against the background of worldly realities. They, like all of us, are in the grip of all-consuming feelings: love and hate, happiness and heartache, despair and joy. The writer has released several collections of poetry and prose:
- 2003 - "Not Local";
- 2004 - “Says”;
- 2004 - “Non-Children's Food”;
- 2007 - “Cutting, Petrusha”;
- 2008 - “In short”;
- 2011 - “Oral folk art of the inhabitants of the M1 sector”.
Other works
In 2004, the novel “No,” co-authored with S. Kuznetsov, saw the light of the day, and in the same year they published “Half the Sky” with S. Lvovsky. Her pen belongs to the novel “Valery”, which was published in 2011; In 2007 and 2008, readers got acquainted with the tales of Linor Goralik “Martin does not cry” and “Alice returns home”. Linor is the creator of the comic book series “The Hare of the Human Rights Center,” the study “The Hollow Woman,” and the author of several articles on fashion and popular culture.
Co-authored novels
The work “Half the Sky” was co-authored with S. Lvovsky. It tells about the meeting of two people after a long separation. The novel is divided into two voices - male and female. Thanks to the fact that two authors wrote it, one can feel the independence of the voice of each of the heroes - Mark and Masha. This is a love story of pioneers from the 70s. They are the last generation of “Soviet” children, and remember the pioneer tie, the death of Brezhnev, the disco, Chernobyl, the film “Guest from the Future”.
The novel “No” was written with Sergei Kuznetsov. According to Linor Goralik, initially she planned to write a porn novel, but it turned out to be a sentimental, sometimes tender, sometimes scary book. The author's duet challenges the modern society and raises the most acute problems: sexual perversions and minorities, political correctness. The book, of course, is about love, but in a world where pornography is the most important art, feelings and emotions are just a hot commodity.
In the “Book of Solitude” authors L. Goralik and M. Fry raise the theme of loneliness. For some, it is painful and painful, for some it is a blessing. The collection consists mainly of Fry's autobiographical essays superstructured on Goralik's short story. The book is about ordinary people: sad and cheerful, sincere and not very purposeful and burning their lives meaningless. Despite the underlying meaning, this is an easy, sincere book about people, different, real.
In their reviews, readers write that ardent aesthetes and opponents of profanity should better stay away from the books of Linor Goralik. For the rest, her works are islands of freedom and looseness. The author conveys so terribly the most terrible, gentle, simplest emotions and movements of the souls of heroes that you involuntarily begin to feel your wrists. Her books are a friend, a little cynical and sharp on the tongue, telling about life and death, about meetings and partings, about love and hate, and opening her eyes to modern realities.