Boris Ignatevich Arwatov

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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) .

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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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritsche WM : АРВАТОВ Борис Игнатьевич . In: Литературная энциклопедия . Moscow 1939 ( [1] [accessed November 10, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c d АРВАТОВ, Борис Игнатьевич . In: Brief literary encyclopedia . Советская энциклопедия, Moscow 1978 ( [2] [accessed November 10, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Arwatow BI: Контр-революция формы (о Валерии Брюсове) . In: LEF . No. 1 , 1923.
  4. ↑ Arwatow BI: Натан Альтман . Berlin 1924.
  5. ↑ Сопротивление материалов. Алексей Чичерин рассекает поэзию (accessed November 7, 2019).
  6. ↑ Janecek G .: AN Čičerin, constructivist poet . In: Russian Literature . tape XXV , 1989, p. 469-523 .
personal data
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