Anatoly Vishevsky

Vishevsky and Briker had been working on a book about the Yiddish language and people who no longer speak it. In 2018 in Ukraine Vishevsky published Fragile Fantasies of Oberbossierer Loys The second edition of the book was released in Russia by Popcorn Books in October 2020.

After receiving his doctorate, Vishevsky taught at Middlebury College and Washington University. Since 1994 he has been teaching in the Russian Department at Grinnell College in Iowa.

Vishevsky is the author of monographic research on irony in Soviet intellectual pop culture and the post-Soviet detective genre of the 1990s. He has also written articles on Russian literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the history of early Meissen porcelain. 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.

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.

Anatoly Vishevsky was born in Chernivtsi in 1954. In 1976 he graduated from the English Department at Chernivtsi University and taught English. He immigrated to the United States in 1979 and started graduate school in the Slavic Department at the University of Kansas. Vishevsky defended his doctoral dissertation on Russian literature in 1985.