Dmitry Bobyshev
Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev (Russian: Дми́трий Васи́льевич Бо́бышев; born April 11, 1936, Mariupol[1]) is a Russian poet, translator and literary critic.
Biography
Dmitry Bobyshev born April 11, 1936 in Mariupol. From his childhood he lived in Leningrad. During the Siege of Dmitry's father died, and after the war he was adopted by his stepfather. In 1959 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Technology, he worked 10 years as an engineer in chemical equipment, then the editor on television.
He wrote poetry from the mid-1950s, was published in samizdat (including the journal of Alexander Ginzburg "Syntax"). In 1979 in Paris, the first book of poems Bobyshev - hiatus. In the same year he went to the United States, where he lives now - in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. She teaches Russian language and literature at the university. Author of six books of poetry, a number of poetry translations (modern American poetry) and volumes of prose memoir, "I am here" (2003). With 1983 - a US citizen.[2]
In the early 1960s, along with Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman, Yevgeny Rein, Bobyshev entered the inner circle of Anna Akhmatova.[3] In the future path of these four poets far apart both in everyday and aesthetically. Poetry Bobyshev competes with Brodsky's poetry in the century and a half rooted in Russian poetic tradition, but Bobyshev choose more radical manifestations of this tradition: odic splendor of the XVIII century and futuristic find self-sufficient meaning in the sound of the word. These trends are amplified in after leaving's Bobyshev works, when they are given a new food, new realities, not run-first verse of Russian vocabulary and place names.
References
External links
- Рецензия на роман-трилогию Дмитрия Бобышева "Человекотекст". "Новый Журнал №279, 2015
- Новая литературная карта России