Ivan Karasev

Ivan Vladimirovich Karasev ( Russian: Иван Владимирович Карасёв, b. February 22, 1970, Krasnodar) is a Russian writer and poet, member of the Union of Russian Writers (the assignee Union of Soviet Writers), member of the Union of Russian Journalists. His usually short stories carry the outward conventions of the magic realism genre, however those are used to construct involved, multi-layered folklore texts, fusing together elements of horror fiction.

After high school Karasev received a degree in physics of low temperatures from the Krasnodar Polytechnic Institute. In 1999 were published his books "“The Circle Terrestrial”" (poems) and "“Whirlia”" (short stories). Now he works in a Russian government daily newspaper “Rossiyskaya gazeta”.

Karsev is the creator of the Arahau constructed language. Arahau is typologically polysynthetic and active. It has turned out to have similarities with Basque and Nakh-Dagestanian languages. Karasev's other linguistic project (Sunilinus) is based on palindromes.

Selected bibliography

Books

* "Whirlia / Выря" (1999)
* "The Circle Terrestrial / Круг земной" (1999)
* "Gospel According to Dark / Евангелие от Мрака" (2007)
* "Maxim Bogdanovich. Verses (translation from Belorussian)"

Essays

* [http://www.rbardalzo.narod.ru/zerkalo_angl.html "The Alphabet as a Mirror of a Human Civilization" (1998)]
* [http://www.rbardalzo.narod.ru/kavkaz.html "Etymology of a Word “Caucasus”" (1998)]
* "Fonts in Mufti and Letters in Bast Sandals" (2004)
* "Philosophical Sight at Evolution of Ecological Ideas" (1999)
* "Our World was born from Wool" (2004)

Linguistic works

* "Dictionary of Grammatology", in Russian
* [http://www.geocities.com/rbardalzo/language_Arahau.html"Arahau. Experience of Speedtalk" (2006)]
* "Sunilinus. When the Universe were as Great palindrome"

External links

* [http://www.rbardalzo.narod.ru/ Site of Ivan Karasev]