A volume of his selected prose appeared in Hebrew translation in 2009, though he has yet to be translated into English. The poet and essayist Alexei Tsvetkov remembered him with these words:...he had very few friends in the commonly accepted sense of the word – that is, people who could climb into each other's skin. He was one of those people who protect their own territory very well. Yet at the same time, as strange as it might seem, it was easier to talk with him than with many in this traditional "subcutaneous" category. Mikhail Shishkin has frequently praised Goldstein's work and cited him as an inspiration. In an English-language talk at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, Shishkin said:For me now, the top of Russian literature is Alexander Goldstein. [...] I'm sure in fifty years here at Columbia University and other American universities all professors will consider our time, our epoch, the epoch of Alexander Goldstein. And we, writers, will be just contemporaries of Alexander Goldstein. We just shared with him the epoch. [...] And if you asked me, "What Russian writers are important and genius nowadays?", I would say: "Read Alexander Goldstein". Alexander Goldstein's wife – Irina Goldstein – was also a journalist. Published works "Расставание с Нарциссом" (Parting from Narcissus), М.,НЛО, 1997, "Аспекты духовного брака" (Aspects of Spiritual Matrimony), М.,НЛО, 2001, "Помни о Фамагусте" (Remember Famagusta), М.,НЛО, 2004, "Спокойные поля" (Quiet Fields), М., НЛО, 2006 "Памяти пафоса" (In Memory of Pathos), М., НЛО, 2009 References Most of the content of this article is a translation of the article on Alexander Goldstein from Russian Wikipedia. External links In English: Review of Remember Famagusta Mikhail Kruitov, 'Memory Is Inseparable from Imagination', shma.com In Russian: О Саше // Зеркало, 2006, № 27 In Memoriam// Новое литературное обозрение, 2006, № 81 Памяти Александра Гольдштейна // Критическая масса, 2006, № 3 Без гарантии возвращения. Станислав Львовский о романе «Спокойные поля» Борис Дубин. Четвёртая проза Жест в искусстве: Глеб Морев об Александре Гольдштейне Саша Соколов. О другой встрече Спокойные поля. «Зеркало» № 25, 2005 Спокойные поля. «Зеркало» № 27, 2006 Комета Гонзага. Из книги «Спокойные поля». «Критическая масса» № 3, 2006 Литература существования. Из книги «Расставание с Нарциссом» Тетис, или Средиземная почта. Из книги «Расставание с Нарциссом» «Аспекты духовного брака». Фрагменты книги Страница на сайте Журнального зала Страница на сайте «Вавилон» Статьи Александра Гольдштейна на сайте журнала «Сеанс» 1957 births 2006 deaths 20th-century