Boris Ignatevich Arwatov
Boris Ignatievich Arvatov ( Russian Борис Игнатьевич Арватов , May 22nd . Jul / 3. June 1896 greg. In Wirballen ; † 14. June 1940 in Moscow ) was a Soviet literary scholars .
Life
Arwatov's father was an expert on customs law . Arwatov had two younger brothers. Yuri Ignatievich Arwatov became a pilot and was shot dead during the Great Terror .
Arvatov began in 1912 in Warsaw with literature to deal with. He became an officer in the First World War . He was a member of the Social Revolutionary Party (SR) and vice-chairman of the SR government committee . After the February Revolution of 1917 he was a delegate at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets . After the October Revolution he was Commissioner in the Red Army on the Polish Front in the Russian Civil War . In 1919 he became a member of the RKP (B) .
Arwatow was an active proletarian theorist. In 1922 he founded the Left Front of the Arts ( LEF ) with others . Besides Arwatow, the core of the LEF was formed by the Russian futurists Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Mayakowski as leaders of the group, Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Assejew , Ossip Maximowitsch Brik , Sergei Michailowitsch Tretyakow , Boris Anissimowitsch Kuschner and Nikolai Fyodorowitsch Tschuschak. The LEF saw itself as the only representative of revolutionary art and competed with the Oktyabr group and the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP) . The position of the LEF was taken by literary groups in Odessa , Ivanovo- Vosnesensk, Tbilisi and Novosibirsk . In the activity of LEF, the participating writers Boris Pasternak , Aleksei Gastev , Aleksei Kruchenykh , Pyotr Vasilievich Nesnamow , Semyon Issaakowitsch Kirsanof , Vassily Kamensky , Igor Gerassimowitsch Terentyev , Mikhail Juljewitsch Lewidow , Viktor Shklovsky , Lev Kassil , Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel , Viktor Osipovich Pertsov Others and the artist Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko , Varvara Stepanova , Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova , Vladimir Tatlin , among others This worked the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein , Lev Kuleshov , Grigori Kozintsev , Leonid Trauberg , Dziga Vertov , Sergei Iossifowitsch Jutkewitsch , Esfir Iljinitschna Schub and others with and the architects Alexander Alexandrowitsch Wesnin , Wiktor Alexandrowitsch Wesnin , Leonid Alexandrowitsch Wesnin and Andrei Konstantinowitsch Burow . In 1925 the LEF architects founded their own association, OSA . The philologists of the formalist group OPOJaS worked together with the LEF . The LEF disbanded in 1929 when Mayakowski and Assejew joined the RAPP after Mayakovsky's failed attempt to found a Revolutionary Front (REF) .
Arwatov wrote about art and classes , art and production, Marxist poetics , sociological poetics, and the counterrevolution of form with regard to Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov . Arwatov analyzed Mayakovsky's poem War and Peace and wrote a book about Natan Issajewitsch Altman . Lewidow called Arvatov as Saint-Just - Avant-garde .
Since 1922, under the leadership of Alexei Nikolayevich Chicherin and Ilya Lvovich Selvinsky, the direction of literary constructivism existed . In 1923 they published the joint manifesto of the constructivist poets , which was written after Svetlana Alexejewna Kovalenko Chicherin and read on December 8, 1922 and March 27, 1923 in the Moscow Polytechnic Museum . In the following debates, Arwatov characterized Chicherin's position as metaphysical and mystical .
At the end of the 1920s, Arwatow practically ceased his literary work because of a developing nervous disease. In 1940 he committed suicide .
Web links
- Lib.ru : Арватов Борис Игнатьевич: Критика и публицистика
- Literature by and about Boris Ignatievich Arwatow in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Catalog of the Russian National Library : Арватов, Борис Игнатьевич
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritsche WM : АРВАТОВ Борис Игнатьевич . In: Литературная энциклопедия . Moscow 1939 ( [1] [accessed November 10, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c d АРВАТОВ, Борис Игнатьевич . In: Brief literary encyclopedia . Советская энциклопедия, Moscow 1978 ( [2] [accessed November 10, 2019]).
- ↑ Arwatow BI: Контр-революция формы (о Валерии Брюсове) . In: LEF . No. 1 , 1923.
- ↑ Arwatow BI: Натан Альтман . Berlin 1924.
- ↑ Сопротивление материалов. Алексей Чичерин рассекает поэзию (accessed November 7, 2019).
- ↑ Janecek G .: AN Čičerin, constructivist poet . In: Russian Literature . tape XXV , 1989, p. 469-523 .
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SURNAME | Arwatow, Boris Ignatjewitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Арватов, Борис Игнатьевич (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1896 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | We ball |
DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1940 |
Place of death | Moscow |