KAGARLITSKI, Julius (Iosifovich)

(1926-)

   Russian critic and professor of European drama at the State Theatrical Institute in Moscow. JK, one of the leading Russian critics to have a strong interest in sf, published the first and most comprehensive study in the then USSR of an individual sf author: Herbert Wells (1963; trans as The Life and Thought of H.G. Wells 1966 UK; considerably rev and exp vt Vggiadyvaias v Griadusheie ("Staring into the Future") 1989). He later edited a 15-vol set of Wells's collected works (1965). Tchto Takoie Fantastika? ("What is the Fantastic?") (1974) is a popular history of thegenre, and has been translated into several languages (not English). JK won, unusually, the Chief Award of the Polish Ministry of Culture, and, again unusually, in 1972 the PILGRIM AWARD for services to sf studies.

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   See also: CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL WORKS ABOUT SF; RUSSIA.