Anatoly Vishevsky

Anatoly Vishevsky (born June 21, 1954 Chernivtsi, Ukraine) is an American scholar of Russian literature, writer, and author of the novel Fragile Fantasies of Oberbossierer Loys.

Vishevsky is the author of monographic research on irony in Soviet intellectual pop culture and the post-Soviet detective genre of the 1990s.

[2] His work has been published by academic journals in Austria, Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Canada, Poland, France and Russia (Literaturnaia gazeta, Kriticheskaia massa, Neprikosnovennyi zapas and others).

In the 1970s, Vishevsky and Boris Briker coauthored and published short stories of "ironic prose" genre in the Soviet Union in Literaturnaia gazeta, and the journals Iunost', Studencheskii meridian and Sovetskii ekran.

After the two men left the Soviet Union, their work was published in the journal Kontinent, and in 1983 as a collection of prose entitled Dog's Affair (Sobach'e delo) with Tret'ia volna Press.