Marusja Klimowa

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Marusja Klimowa ( Russian Маруся Климова , actually: Tatjana Nikolajewna Kondratowitsch, born January 14, 1961 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a Russian writer and translator. She lives in Saint Petersburg .

Life

Marusja Klimowa grew up in Leningrad. Her father was a captain and later deputy rector of the Naval Academy. She learned French as a child. She studied Romance studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the State University of St. Petersburg (then Leningrad). After completing her studies, she worked as a translator in state administration. Her non-conformist attitude led to conflicts and she had to make ends meet at times with odd jobs. In the 1980s and 1990s, the writer was one of the most important figures on the Leningrad underground scene . In addition to her own works, she also wrote translations by Western European authors who were banned during the Soviet era, such as Mort à crédit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline . In the early 1990s she lived in Paris.

In 1994 she and others founded the Russian Society of Friends of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the publishing house of the same name. In 1999 and 2000 she was one of the organizers of the so-called "Dark Nights" festival of decadence in St. Petersburg. In 2005 she made the film The Murder of Joaschen or What Fassbinder Didn't Do (based on Jean Caret's novel Carel ). She organizes international colloquia on French authors and is an author in various European newspapers (Mitya Magazin, Kommersant, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Art-Press) and radio stations such as Radio Liberty.

As a translator, Klimowa has done most of the novels by Louis-Ferdinand Céline as well as the works of Jean Genet , Pierre Guyotat , Georges Bataille , Monique Wittig , Pierre Louÿs and others. a. transfer.

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Marusja Klimowa is one of the most important representatives of nonconformism in contemporary Russian literature. In Klimova's works, irony, immorality and misanthropy are brought together with the cult of genius and the adoration of absolute beauty in a paradoxical way in the spirit of the decadence of the fin de siècle .

In her autobiographical novels Das Blaue Blut (1991), Die Hütte in Bois-Colombes (1998) and Blonde Bestien (2001) the author portrays a broad panorama of Russian and European society in the 1980s and 1990s. The figures of Russian neo-dandies and transvestites described by Klimowa , who are ready to constantly change their masks and costumes with incredible ease, precisely reflect the atmosphere of the general carnival of those years, which were characterized by a rapid change in social identifications were.

In her book My History of Russian Literature (2004), which is a mixture of genres between essay and novel of ideas, the author brings the fate and works of Russian writers in connection with autobiographical events. Full of paradoxical and unexpected judgments about the so-called "Russian classics" such as Tolstoy , Dostoyevsky and the like. a. The book caused a storm of protests from the classically oriented reading public and became one of the most scandalous phenomena in Russian literature of the last decade.

The works of Marusja Klimowa have been translated into several European languages ​​(including French, German, English, Estonian, Serbian, Italian).

Works

  • 1996: Голубая кровь / "The blue blood"
  • 1998: Домик в Буа-Коломб / «The hut in Bois-Colombes»
  • 1999: Морские рассказы / "Stories from the Sea"
  • 2000: Селин в России / "Celine in Russia"
  • 2001: Белокурые бестии / "Blonde Beasts"
  • 2004: Моя история русской литературы / «My history of Russian literature»
  • 2004: Парижские встречи / «Paris meeting»
  • 2009: Моя теория литературы / «My theory of literature»
  • 2012: Портрет художнтицы в юности / “A portrait of the artist as a young woman”
  • 2013: Безумная мгла / «Crazy Darkness»
  • 2016: Профиль Гельдерлина на ноге английского поэта / «The profile of Hölderlin on the leg of the English poet»
  • 2019: Холод и отчуждение / "Cold and Alienation"

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://femme-terrible.com/bio/ accessed on November 23, 2019
  2. ↑ http://femme-terrible.com/bio/ accessed on November 23, 2019
  3. ↑ https://www.cairn.info/revue-de-la-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france-2011-2-page-22.htm# accessed on November 23, 2011
  4. ↑ http://femme-terrible.com/bio/ accessed on November 23, 2019
  5. ↑ https://www.cairn.info/revue-de-la-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france-2011-2-page-22.htm# accessed on November 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Klimova, Marusja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Климова, Маруся (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union