Lev Loseff
Lev Loseff[1] (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.[2]
Early life and education
The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad.[2] He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University.[2]
Literary career
Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976.[3] He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later.[1] In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.
Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH.[4]
Works
- Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life
- Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
- Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail)
- On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature
- Poetika Brodskogo
- Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
- A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr)
- Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Gonzalez, Katie (May 12, 2009). "Russian department chair dies at 71". The Dartmouth. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Lev Vladimirovich Loseff" (in Russian). Ozon.ru. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
- ↑ Mydans, Seth (September 6, 1991). "Soviet Turmoil; Exiled Russian Writers, Free to Return, Find Visiting Is Enough". The New York Times.
- ↑ http://www.polit.ru/news/2009/05/07/losev.html
External links
- http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/losev0.html
- http://www.rvb.ru/np/publication/02comm/10/07losev.htm
- Photographs of Loseff
- Book review of Loseff's biography of Joseph Brodsky.
- Interview with Loseff in Ogonyok magazine.
- http://levloseff.blogspot.com/
- "Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life by Lev Loseff" in Quarterly Conversation
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