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Arkady Rovner, a Russian-language writer, translator and publisher, passed away, the Revizor website reports. He died in the United States, where he spent the last years of his life, at the age of 79.
Arkady Rovner was born in Odessa, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the early seventies he emigrated to the United States, where he continued his doctoral studies at Columbia University. In the United States, he worked in various universities, taught courses on patristics, eastern religions and modern mysticism. He also worked at Moscow universities at the 90s.
Rovner came up with a “fun science” of fulology. Its name can be translated into Russian as "fooling around." The writer was friends with many cultural and underground figures - Venedikt Erofeev, Yuri Mamleev, Ilya Bokshtein, Nikolai Bokov, Mark Lyando and others. More than twenty books came out from under his pen. Among them are prose works, poetry collections, essays, biographical publications, including P. Y. Chaadaev, Hades Floors, Buddha and Degtyarev, Gurdjieff and Uspenskiy.
Arkady Rovner took part in writing Mystics of the XX century and What is Enlightenment? encyclopedias. He is the compiler of The Anthology of Contemporary Russian Poetry series. In New York, he founded the publishing house Gnosis Press. It published the religious, philosophical and literary journal Gnosis.
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