person

1950 –

Hungary

Born in Budapest. He received his diploma in Hungarian-Russian studies from Lóránd Eötvös University (ELTE) at Faculty of Liberal Arts (1974). He teaches literary aesthetics, media theory and Russian cultural history in the ELTE Department of Aesthetics and Institute of Russistics. He took his doctorate in 1976. He is founder and co-director of the Hungarian Institute of Russistics at ELTE and founding editor of the sociological and literary periodical 2000. He has written books and essays on the Russian avant-garde, totalitarian culture of the Stalin era and negative utopias. His selected books: ’Tetem és tabu’ [Corpse and Taboo] (Kijárat, 1996); ’Tarkovszkij’ (with Kovács András Bálint, Helikon, 1997). He received the Attila József Prize for his literary work in 1984. (2011)