Mark Alexandrovich Aldanov

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Mark Aldanow (1925)

Mark Aldanov ( Russian Марк Александрович Алданов , born as Mark Aleksandrovich Landau ; born October 26 . Jul / 7. November  1886 greg. In Kiev ; †  25. February 1957 in Nice ) was a Russian writer.

Life

Aldanow came from a Jewish industrial family. After studying at the University of Kiev , he initially worked in his profession as a chemist, but published a literary work on Tolstoy and Rolland as early as 1915 . From the end of the First World War he turned to writing, mainly writing historical-philosophical novels and intensively concerned with psychology . The pseudonym Aldanow used is an incomplete anagram of his maiden name with a Russian ending; later he adopted it as a family name.

In 1919 Aldanow emigrated to France , until 1940 he lived in Paris. Just in time for the occupation of the French capital by the Wehrmacht, he emigrated to the USA via Nice, where he arrived in early 1941. He lived in New York until the end of his life .

While in emigration, Aldanow wrote eight historical novels and the drama "The Brunhildes Line" ( Linija Brungilda ). One of his most critically acclaimed works is the novel cycle The Thinker , which was published between 1923 and 1927 in Russian émigré publishers in Paris. The translation of his novel "The Beginning of the End" ( Nataschalo Konza ), published in New York in 1943 under the title "The Fifth Seal", was named "Book of the Month" by the literary department of the New York Times ("NYT Book Review"). He also wrote political essays on the political leaders of his time, including a. about Aristide Briand , Winston Churchill , Georges Clemenceau , David Lloyd George , Erich Ludendorff and Josef Stalin , whose tyranny he described as early as the late 1920s . Politically he was close to the Russian Social Democrats, who were opposed and bloody persecuted by the Bolsheviks .

As the editor of Russian exile magazines, Aldanov conducted extensive correspondence with writers and politicians such as Vladimir Nabokov , Ivan Bunin and Alexander Kerensky . It was published in parts after his death. Ivan Bunin made use of his right as a Nobel Prize winner to propose candidates for the prize: between 1938 and 1950 he submitted the name Aldanov six times.

literature

Translations by Aldanow into German

  • Lenin and Bolshevism. [Authorized translation by Viktor Bergmann] Berlin: Ullstein 1920. 256 pp.
  • The ninth Thermidor: Roman. Book decorations by Karl Stratil. [Authoris. Translated from the Russ. by Rebecca Candreia] Munich: Drei Masken Verl., 1925. 467 pp.
  • The Devil's Bridge: Historical Novel. [Authoris. Translated from the Russ. by Rebecca Candreia] Munich: Drei Masken Verl., [1925]. 350 pp.
  • The Tolstoy riddle. From the Russ. transfer by R. v. Campenhausen Paderborn: Schöningh, 1928. 127 pp.
  • Sankt Helena: "A small island". Novel. [Only authoritative. Translated from the Russ. German by Martha Fleischmann] Munich: Drei Masken Verl., [1929]. 185 pp.
  • Contemporaries . Berlin: Schlieffen-Verlag, 1929, 361 pp.
  • An unsentimental journey: encounters and experiences in today's Europe. [Only authorized, through by the author. Transl., Esp. By Woldemar Klein]. With e. Vorw. Von Balder Olden. Munich: Hanser 1932. 218 pp.
  • Before the flood. [Original or English translation: Before the Deluge]: Roman / [Dt. by Harry Kahn], Zurich: Morgarten Verl. 1948. Getr. Pag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Mark Alexandrowitsch Aldanow on hrono.ru ; accessed on May 13, 2017 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Vol'fgang Kazak : Leksikon russkoj literatury XX veka. Moscow 1991, p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b Pink Fedoulova: Lettres d'Ivan Bunin à Mark Aldanov. In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique , 22 (1981), 4, pp. 471-488. Retrieved August 29, 2014 (Russian).
  4. ^ Bibliography of the œuvres de Marc Aldanov . Ed. Tatania Ossorguine. Paris 1976.
  5. ^ Russkaja literatura v emigracii . Sbornik statej pod red. NP Poltorackogo. Pittsburgh 1972, p. 98.
  6. ^ Mark Aldanow: Contemporaries . Schlieffen-Verlag Berlin 1929.
  7. ↑ Vol'fgang Kazak : Leksikon russkoj literatury XX veka. Moscow 1991, p. 9.
  8. ^ Nobel Prize Archives ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Aldanow, Mark Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovič (scientific transliteration); Алданов, Марк Александрович (Cyrillic); Landau, Mark Alexandrowitsch (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1957
Place of death Nice