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Ilya Masodov
Edition of the trilogy The Darkness of Your Eyes (2021) in front of a sculpture of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

Ilya Masodov (unknown; some sources state 1966) is a modern Russian writer.^[1]

According to the publisher, Ilya Masodov was born in 1966 in Leningrad. He worked as a school teacher for a while and moved to Germany. There is no trustworthy evidence of the existence of the writer. An agent of the writer, Dmitry Volchek, stated that Masodov is a real person, but Volchek himself is not aware of the fate of the writer after 2003.^[2]

There is a discussion about whether Ilya Masodov is a real writer. According to one theory, Masodov is a pseudonym derived from the names of other Russian writers such as "Ma-" for Mamleev, "-so-" for Sorokin and "-dov" for Radov (or less commonly, for "Dovlatov"). Other people consider the name as an anagram from von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade.^[3] It is also argued that Ilya Masodov is a project of Marusya Klimova or her publisher named Dmitry Volchek.^[3]

Some critics found Masodov uses the "pared to the bones" creative approach of Vladislav Krapivin.^[4] Masodov works between two genres, namely "Necrorealism" and "guro"^[5] or "vampire horror".^[6]

Trilogy of novels 2001:

• The Darkness of Your Eyes (Мрак твоих глаз) - a mocking and surreal story about a teenage vampire girl who travels to Black Moscow in order to raise Lenin from the dead.^[7][8]
• The Heat of Your Hands (Тепло твоих рук)
• The Sweetness of Your Soft Lips (Сладость губ твоих нежных)

Additionally, a publisher of Masodov has stated that there is at least one unpublished novel by the author.^[9]

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