Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov

Yuri Pavlovich Kazakow ( Russian Юрий Павлович Казаков ; born August 8, 1927 in Moscow , † November 29, 1982 ibid) was a Russian writer.

He was born in a working-class family from the rural environment of the Smolensk Governorate . His youth fell during the Second World War . Memories of the nights of bombing in Moscow found their literary expression in 1960–1970.

In 1946 he was enrolled at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow , where he studied cello and double bass, which he completed in 1951. There was no permanent professional commitment.

In late 1940, Kazakov began writing poetry, prose and plays, which were rejected by the editorial staff, as well as contributions to the Sovietsky Sport newspaper . In 1953 he began studying at the Maxim Gorki Literature Institute .

Among Kazakov's earliest stories, Teddy (1956) and Arktur the Hound (1957) stand out . The main characters are animals that have escaped from the circus. Kazakow, who mainly wrote lyrical short stories in which individual fates are in the foreground, is considered to be the continuation of the best traditions of Russian classical music in modern literature, especially Ivan Bunin , about whom he was planning a book.

In 1963 Kazakow published the anthology Musik bei Nacht in Germany . The anthology with stories The Scent of Bread , published in 1960 in the Soviet Union , was also published in German in 1965.

The Russian north occupied a special place in Kazakov's work, as he explained in the volume of short stories Nördliches Tagebuch (1977).

A subtle musical rhythm is characteristic of Kazakov's prose and poetry. His heroes are lonely people with deep sensitivity who are drawn into guilt. The feeling of guilt and parting characterized the last stories Svechechka (1973) and, with autobiographical features, You Wept Bitterly in a Dream (1977).

Web links

• Literature by and about Yuri Pawlowitsch Kasakow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at krugosvet.ru (Russian)