Arsen Borisovich Kozojew
Arsen Borisovich Kozojew ( Russian Арсен Борисович Коцоев ; Ossetian Коцойты Бибойы фырт Арсен / Kozoity Bibojy fýrt Arsenic * 15. January 1872 in Gisel , today district Prigorodny , North Ossetia , † 4. February 1944 in Ordzhonikidze, now Vladikavkaz ) was an Ossetian writer. He is considered to be one of the pacemakers in Ossetian artistic prose.
Life
Childhood and studies
Kozojew came from a poor peasant family, went to the village school at the age of nine and then attended a seminar in Ardon . During this time his enthusiasm for literature grew. With nine friends he walked from Ardon to Vladikavkaz to see Kosta Chetagurov .
Due to illness he could not finish the seminar and returned to his home village, where he was engaged in literary work. He sent his stories to newspapers as Terskije Vedomosti and Kazbek they under his pseudonym Habosch , Botasch or AK published.
Teacher and journalist
Kozojew was initially a teacher. In 1899 he met Kosta Chetagurow again at a teachers' congress. Because atheism - Propaganda he was dismissed from the school. Because of a participation in the peasant uprising in 1899, he lost the right to stay in the Terskaya region.
He moved to South Ossetia . There he began teaching again in schools and published articles in Transcaucasian magazines. In 1910 he began to publish the magazine Æfsir (German ear ) in Tbilisi , where his first Ossetian stories were published. The magazine played a major role in the development of Ossetian literature and journalism, but was discontinued after 14 issues.
In 1912 Kozojew moved to Saint Petersburg , where he worked as a proofreader for the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda founded by Lenin . He published various stories there, including Dreamed and Comrade .
Awards
1939 Kozojew was for "outstanding contributions in society and educational activities" with the Order of Honor awarded.
After his death Kozojew was buried in the courtyard of the K. L. Chetagurow Museum in Vladikavkaz. The cities of Vladikavkaz and Beslan named streets after him.
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The majority of AB Kozoev's stories are tragic. Most of the events deal with the strict customs of the mountain people: especially the blood revenge ("Сæумæрайсом" (early morning), "Фынддæс азы" (fifteen years old) etc.). The stories depict the suffering of the poor mountain dwellers who waste their last money on shamanic incantations.
In other works Kozojew criticizes the custom of the Kolym payment in artistic form : the hero of the story "Афтæ дæр вæййы" (This is how it happens) steals sheep from his father-in-law's flock in order to pay off Kalym in installments. But one night he is killed while attempting to steal a horse ; the hero's last words were: may God not forgive my father-in-law Xodzau (Kolym), because of him stealing became a passion for me.
“ He created images of the tragedy of life. As complicated as the world itself, Arsenic shapes the paths of his heroes … ”, writes the Ossetian literary scholar Dschikajew in an essay published in a work in the Kozojew edition (Uacmishte. Ordzhonikidze, 1971).
In the novella "Dzhanaspi" (1940) Kozojew shows the class struggle and the victory of the collective farm system , creates the wise men of the new people of the Ossetian village.
He also wrote the novel ..., which tells of the life of mountain dwellers in a big city. The work is known only from the fragments that were published in the newspaper " Ræstdsinad " (1923 J., numbers 11-17); the first excerpt was accompanied by the editorial staff's introduction: "The novel will soon be published as a separate book, and we are printing a few fragments for now".
In Kozoyev's translation, stories by Pushkin were given.
The manuscripts of Kozojev's works have not survived, which makes it difficult to read. For example, the series of stories - "Ханиффæ" (Chanyffæ) etc. - have been published in different versions, although it is incomprehensible which corrections were made by Kozojew and what should be referred to editorial corrections.
Seals
In Ossetian
- Радзырдтæ . Цхинвал (Tskhinvali) 1924
- Радзырдтæ . Мæскуы (Moscow) 1927
- Радзырдтæ . Цхинвал (Tskhinvali) 1929
- Радзырдты æмбырдгонд. 1-аг чиныг . Ordzhonikidze (Ordzhonikidze) 1934.
- Фыдбылыз , Цæукъа æмæ фыркъа , Ханиффæйы мæлæт , Джанаспи . Ordzhonikidze (Ordzhonikidze) 1940
- Уацмыстæ: фыццаг том . Дзæуджыхъæу (Dsaudschikau) 1949
- Уацмыстæ . Ordzhonikidze (Ordzhonikidze) 1971
In Russian
- Избранные рассказы . М. 1952
- Саломи: Избранные рассказы . М. 1959
literature
- Z. Salagaeva: Arsen Kotsoev . In: An essay on Ossetian history in the Soviet era . Ordzhonikidze, pp. 118-30.
- T. Ephity: Arsen Kotsoity . Ordzhonikidze 1955 (monograph, in Ossetian).
Web links
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kozojew, Arsen Borissowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kot͡soev, Arsen Borisovich; Kocoev, Arsenic; Kocojev, Arsen Borisovič; Kozoity Bibojy fyrt arsenic; Коцоев, Арсен Борисович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ossetian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gisel , North Ossetia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vladikavkaz , North Ossetia |