Anatoly Naumowitsch Rybakov

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Anatoly Rybakov ( Russian Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков ., Scientific transliteration Anatoly Naumović Rybakov , originally Аронов / Aronow * January 1, jul. / 14. January  1911 greg. In Chernigov , Russian Empire (now Ukraine ); † 23. December 1998 in New York ) was a Russian writer. In 1987 his best known work, the novel The Children of Arbat, appeared .

Life

Since 1919 Rybakov lived in Moscow , where he worked, among other things, as a transport engineer. In 1933, although he was a supporter of socialism, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia for three years. After that he worked in various professions and kept changing his place of residence for fear of being arrested again. He took part in World War II from 1941 and entered Berlin with the Soviet army . Because of his services in the war he was rehabilitated and was able to return to Moscow, where he then worked as a writer. In 1989 Rybakov became president of the Soviet PEN center. In 1998 he died in New York of complications from heart surgery.

Literary work

Youth books

Anatoly Rybakov has long been known primarily for his books for young people. The most famous is The Bronze Eagle , an adventure story about a Moscow Komsomol and pioneer group who tried to solve a murder in a village in the early 1920s. The figures in the bronze eagle (1956) appear before in The Navy Dagger (1953) and later in The Shot .

Novel cycle

In 1987 Rybakov published a book that no longer had much to do with these youth stories: The Children of Arbat . The novel is the first volume in a cycle that deals with the history of the Soviet Union. Written as early as the 1960s and then revised several times, the book was only able to appear under Mikhail Gorbachev and thus advanced to become a symbol of glasnost . The children of the Arbat describes a first wave of Stalinist persecution. The main character is the student and convinced communist Sascha Pankratow, who is expelled from the Komsomol and his university because of a statement and a few caricatures . However, since he feels innocent, he actively campaigns for his rehabilitation, but soon has to experience the ineffectiveness of his actions. He is arrested, supposed to sign a guilty pledge and, after refusing, is exiled to Siberia for three years . Parallel to this story, on the one hand, there is a description of the life of relatives, friends and fellow students of Sascha Pankratow under the new circumstances of fear and persecution, on the other hand, the reader is led into Stalin's world of thought , which is characterized by striving for power and human contempt. The rise of one of Pankratov's fellow students, Jura Scharok, is particularly revealing, who, without believing in communism, is becoming more and more successful in the Soviet secret service thanks to his opportunistic skills. The book ends with the murder of the popular Petersburg functionary Sergei Kirov , which Stalin uses as a pretext for his so-called purge, that is, for the purpose of concentrating power.

The second volume of the cycle, Years of Terror , deals with this epoch . The story of the characters from Kinder vom Arbat is continued here. While Sascha Pankratow is still living in exile, his friends and relatives have to come to terms with the new situation. Life is increasingly shaped by fear and suspicion because Stalin uses terror to get possible competitors out of the way.

The cycle continued with City of Fear .

In Russia, these three volumes were published as a trilogy . In Germany, Years of Terror and City of Fear were published separately.

The last part of the cycle has not yet been published in German. He is called in English Dust and Ashes (dust and ashes).

Works

  • The children of the Arbat . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7466-1823-1
  • Years of terror . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1990, ISBN 978-3462020441
  • City of fear . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3423119627
  • Dust and ashes . (not yet published in German)
  • The marine dagger , Verlag Neues Leben 1953 ( Excitingly told , Volume 3)
  • Novel of memory . (Autobiography), Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2001
  • Schwerer Sand , New Life Publishing 1981
  • The torn photo , New Life publishing house 1973
  • Der Bronzeadler , Verlag Neues Leben 1959 ( Excitingly told , Volume 30)
  • The shot , Verlag Neues Leben 1978 ( excitingly told , volume 140)
  • Krosch and his adventures (excerpts under the title Ein Autowrack und 1000 Streiches in Die Kleine Jugendreihe No. 17/61 and 18/61; together as a paperback, Verlag Neues Leben 1975, Kompass-Bücherei Volume 45; complete German edition Krosch und seine Abenteuer , Verlag Neues Leben 1975)
  • People at the wheel
  • Summer in Sossnyaki
  • Upstream!

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anatoly Rybakov - biography. Retrieved April 16, 2018 (Russian).
  2. ↑ a b About Anatoly Rybakov. Retrieved April 16, 2018 (Russian).
  3. ↑ a b Anatoly Rybakov. Retrieved April 17, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Rybakov, Anatoly Naumowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Рыбаков, Анатолий Наумович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernigov , Russian Empire (now Ukraine )
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1998
Place of death New York City