Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati (born August 22, 1884 in Brăila , Romania , † April 16, 1935 in Bucharest ) was a French- and Romanian-speaking writer of Romanian origin.
Life
His mother was the laundress Joița Istrate, his father a Greek smuggler. He grew up in the village of Baldovineşti near Brăila , where he attended elementary school for six years, where he sat twice. He later made a living as a waiter and assistant to a pastry maker. During this time he was a tireless reader. His travels, partly as a tramp, took him to Bucharest , Constantinople , Alexandria , Cairo , Naples , Paris and Switzerland .
Living in deep poverty, sick and lonely, he attempted suicide on the way to Nice in 1921 , but was saved. He had written a self-confessed letter to Romain Rolland , which was found on him after the suicide attempt and was delivered to Rolland, to which Rolland replied immediately. In 1923 his short story Kyra Kyralina was published with a foreword by Romain Rolland. In this preface Rolland called him the " Gorky of the Balkans".
In 1927 he traveled to Russia with Nikos Kazantzakis and visited Moscow and Kiev . A second trip to the Soviet Union followed in 1929, where he learned the truth about the Stalinist dictatorship. This led to his famous book On Wrong Path .
His former communist friends now branded him a "fascist". He returned to Romania sick and broken, where he died of tuberculosis in 1935 . Panait Istrati was buried in the Cimitrul Bellu ( German Bellu cemetery ) in Bucharest.
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The stories about Adrian Zograffi :
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Kyra Kyralina . Paris 1924; from the French, Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3093-9
- from Romanian by Oskar Pastior . Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-8031-3278-9
- Uncle Anghel , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3142-0
- The Haiduken , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3143-9
Adrian Zograffi's youth:
- Codin , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3144-7
- Michail , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3145-5
- The sponge fisherman , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3146-3
- Family Perlmutter , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3148-X
- The thistles of the Baragan . Book guild Gutenberg ISBN 3-7632-3149-8
The life of Adrian Zograffi:
- Mediterranean , Book Guild Gutenberg ISBN 3-7632-3154-4
- The employment agency , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3153-6
- The Thuringian House , Gutenberg Book Guild ISBN 3-7632-3152-8
Outside of the cycle around Adrian Zograffi:
- Nerrantsoula . Book guild Gutenberg ISBN 3-7632-3147-1
- Tata Minca . Book guild Gutenberg ISBN 3-7632-3150-1
Report of a trip through the Soviet Union:
- On the wrong track . Book guild Gutenberg ISBN 3-7632-3151-X
literature
- Ilja Ehrenburg : People - Years - Life. Memoirs , Volume 2 1923–1941, Munich 1962, again Munich 1965, pp. 197–202 (portrait), ISBN 3-463-00512-3
- Heinrich Stiehler: Panait Istrati. On the difficulty of telling life , Gutenberg Book Guild , Frankfurt 1990 ISBN 3-7632-3851-4
- Heinrich Stiehler: On the reception of Panaït Istrati in the FRG and the GDR. A qualitative content analysis . In: Beatrice Nickel, Carolin Fischer (ed.): French and Francophone Literature in Germany 1945-2010. Reception, translation, cultural transfer . Peter Lang, Bern 2011 ISBN 978-3-631-55953-6 pp. 43–50
- Jules Ferdmann: Panait Istrati . In: Davoser Revue, Vol. 1 (1926), No. 8, pp. 23-27
- Birgit Schmidt: "I'm not a theorist, but I understand socialism very differently". Life, work and revolt of the Romanian writer Panaït Istrati. Edition AV, Frankfurt 2019
- slightly shortened and revised, without comment: "Where is the omelette?" Dschungel, supplement to jungle world , 45, 7 November 2019, pp. 18 - 23 (portrait)
Web links
- Literature by and about Panait Istrati in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Jochen Schmidt : Instructions for use for Romania . No. 7627 . Piper Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-27627-6 , pp. 133 f .
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Panait Istrati
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Istrati, Panait |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-speaking writer of Romanian origin |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1884 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brăila , Romania |
DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1935 |
Place of death | Bucharest |