Eduard Bagritsky
Eduard Bagritsky | |
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Born | Eduard Godelevich Dzyubin November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1895 Odessa, Russian Empire |
Died | 16 February 1934 Moscow, USSR | (aged 38)
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Russian |
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Eduard Georgyevich Bagritsky (Russian: Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Багри́цкий, IPA: [ɨdʊˈard ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐˈɡrʲitskʲɪj] ⓘ; November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1895 – February 16, 1934) was a prominent Russian and Soviet poet of the Constructivist School.
He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers (which also included Isaak Babel, Yuri Olesha, Valentin Katayev, Vera Inber, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, among others). A large number of this school's writers were Odessa natives who often incorporated Ukrainian inflections and vocabulary into their writing.
Biography
Born Eduard Godelevich Dzyubin (Russian: Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Дзю́бин, IPA: [ˈdzʲʉbʲɪn] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Дзю́бін) in Odessa to a Jewish middle-class family, most of his creative career took place in Moscow. After his early death from asthma, his friends helped to publish several of his works posthumously to provide financial assistance to his family. Isaak Babel, for example, planned to write a screenplay based on Bagritsky's long poem Archived 2017-02-14 at the Wayback Machine "Duma about Opanas" (the script was never finished and was eventually lost).
Bagritsky was heavily influenced by the Russian Revolution and Civil War. His poetry often touches on the subjects of violence, revolutionary morality, sexuality and its interethnic sociological problems. His worldview was extremely unsentimental, and earned him much invective from detractors from all sides who saw his poetry as vindictive toward both his Jewish origins and the host Russian culture.
In his book Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (2000), Maxim D. Shrayer investigated the path of this major Jewish poet writing in the Russian language and examined Bagritsky's contested legacy. The book included English translations of some Bagrtisky's works.
Bagritsky's long poem February (1933–34) was published in a translation by Roman Turovsky in 2017 in the literary journal Cardinal Points.[1]
In his poetry of the last period of his life Bagritsky managed to covertly criticise the growing oppressive Stalinist regime.[2] Bagritsky who had been suffering from bronchial asthma from childhood died form complications due to pneumonia in Moscow in 1934, aged 38.[3] He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Family
Bagritsky's wife, Lidia Gustavovna Suok (of Czech and Austrian descent), had two sisters who also married noted writers: Olga married Yuri Olesha and Serafima married Vladimir Narbut. Bagritsky's son Vsevolod (killed early in World War II) was also a notable Russian poet, whose fiancée Yelena Bonner (eventually the wife of Andrei Sakharov) later was a notable Russian dissident.
See also
Notes
- ^ Cardinal Points vol.7, pp.147-167
- ^ P. Barenboim, B. Meshcheryakov — Flanders in Moscow and Odessa:: poet Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky) as the Till Ulenspiegel of Russian literature.
- ^ "Багрицкий Эдуард Георгиевич". odessa-memory.info. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
External links
- Article about Bagritsky in the YIVO Encyclopediad of Jews in Eastern Europe
- Eduard Bagritsky. Poems
- Bargitsky in English
- P. Barenboim, B. Meshcheryakov — Flanders in Moscow and Odessa:: poet Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky) as the Till Ulenspiegel of Russian literature. An HTML version of the book on the Flemish theme and opposition to Stalinism in the poetical legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky). Complete translations of the poems comprising the “Flemish” cycle. This book in print.
- Eduard Bagritsky at Find a Grave
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