Igor Guberman

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Igor Guberman in 2009

Igor Mironovič Guberman ( Russian Игорь Миронович Губерман , scientific transliteration Igor 'Mironovič Guberman ; born 1936 in Kharkov ) is a writer and poet of the Russian language.

life and work

Igor Guberman comes from a Ukrainian Jewish family. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Moscow, where he graduated from the State University of Transportation and then worked as an electrical engineer. At the end of the 1950s he met Alexander Ginsburg , editor of the samizdat magazine Sintaksis . In 1979 he was arrested in Moscow after refusing to testify against Refusenik Viktor Brailovsky . He was sentenced to five years in prison and deported to Siberia. He emigrated from the USSR in 1987 and has lived in Israel since 1988 .

He is the author of well-known short satirical verses called "Gariki". These short four-line poems (originally called "Jewish Dazibao" by Guberman) always contain an abab rhyme scheme. They use different meters and cover a wide range of topics, including anti-Semitism, immigrant life, anti-religious sentiments, and the author's love-hate relationship with Russia and the former Soviet Union. The author also wrote under the pseudonyms A. Mironow and Abram Chayyam . He is a famous Soviet dissident . In the novel Progulki wokrug baraka ( walks around a barrack ), he processed his own camp experiences. Some of his poems were circulated as samizdat literature. He became known to a wider audience relatively late. His works provide an unvarnished representation of everyday Soviet life.

He now lives in Jerusalem .

Publications (selection)

  • Ierusalimskie gariki. Moskva: Politekst, 1994
  • Progulki vokrug baraka. Tenafly: Ėrmitaž, 1988
  • Boomerang. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982
  • Evrejskie daczybao: stuchi, epigrammy, komičeskie poėmy. Ramat-Gan: Knigotov. Moskva - Ierusalim, 1980

literature

  • Laura Salmon: "Melancholic Humor, Skepticism and Reflective Nostalgia. Igor 'Guberman's Poetics of Paradox", in: Sara Dickinson and Laura Salmon (Eds.): Melancholic identities, toska and reflective nostalgia. Case Studies from Russian and Russian-Jewish Culture. 2015 ( partial online view )
  • Greta N. Slobin: “Igor Guberman: An Exile's Art of Punning.” In Bilingual Games , edited by Doris Sommer, 275–85. New York: Palgrave, 2003 ( partial online view )

Web links

Commons : Igor Guberman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moscow is sometimes mentioned as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ Gariki
  3. ↑ Dazibao ( 大字报 , dàzìbào ) are Chinese wall newspapers with large handwritten characters.
  4. ↑ cf. DNB (also for various alternative spellings)
  5. ↑ Progulki wokrug baraka ( Russian Прогулки вокруг барака , scientific transliteration Progulki vokrug baraka ); see. Gariki .
personal data
SURNAME Guberman, Igor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guberman, Igor Mironovich (full name); Губерман, Игорь Миронович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov