René Guerra

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
René Guerra (2013)

René Guerra (born July 13, 1946 in Strasbourg ) is a French Slavist , literary historian and art collector who specializes in the first Russian emigration .

Life

Guerra studied Russian literature at the Institute for Eastern Languages ​​and Cultures ( Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales ) of the Sorbonne . In 1981 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Russian writer in exile Boris Saizew , whose secretary he had been from 1967 to 1972. He then taught Russian literature at the University of Nice and at the French Military Academy in Paris .

He is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts (Российская академия художеств). In 2008 he was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation.

Studies and collections

His house in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris houses a large collection of book editions and magazines from the First Russian Emigration (1920–1940) with a focus on literature. Part of the collection are letters and archive materials that Some of them were left by relatives of deceased writers in exile, including materials on Mark Aldanow , Nina Berberova , Iwan Bunin , Wladislaw Khodasevich , Mikhail Ossorgin , Alexei Remisow , Boris Saizew , Iwan Schmeljow . He also pays special attention to the work of Vladimir Nabokov in European exile. He has also collected paintings and graphics by Russian artists of the period. Part of the art collection was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in 2014.

Guerra has published numerous literary-historical studies on exiled writers as well as parts of his correspondence with Soviet Russian writers in Russian exile publishers in Paris and, since perestroika, also in Russia.

Works

  • Bibliography des oeuvres de Boris Zaitsev. Institut d'Études Slaves, Paris 1982.
  • "Zal 'russkij narod". Perepiska Rene Gerrra s dejateljami sovetskoj kul'tury. Éditions Albatros, Paris 1992 ( Жаль русский народ: Переписка Ренэ Герра с деятелями советской культуры ).
  • Images de Pouchkine  : portraits d'exil dans l'oeuvre des peintres russes émigrés en France, 1920–1970. Collection René Guerra, Issy-les-Moulineaux 1999.
  • "Oni unesli s soboj Rossiju." Russkie ėmigranty - pisateli i chudožniki vo Francii 1920–1970 ( Они унесли с собой Россию…. Русские эмигранты - писатили и художнию ... 1920–1970 ). Saint-Petersburg 2013 ISBN 5-86789-149-6
  • Mladščee pokolenie pisatelej russkogo zarubež'ja ( Младшее поколение писателей русского зарубежья ). GUP, Saint-Petersburg 2009 ISBN 978-5-7621-0508-8
  • BK Zajcev. Poslednij klassik russkoj literature ( Б. К. Зайцев - последний классик русской литературы ). Saint-Petersburg 2009.
  • «Sem 'dnej v marte». Besedy ob ėmigracii s A. Vaksbergom . ( "Семь дней в марте". Беседы об эмиграции с Ваксбергом . Saint-Petersburg 2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jefim Etkind (ed.): Histoire de la littératute russe. T. 3: Gels et dégels. Paris 1990, p. 116.
  2. ↑ Рене Герра: Russkie i francuzy kongenial´ny ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Političeskij žurnal , № 12 (189), October 28, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politjournal.ru
  3. ↑ René Guerra's Never-Ending Country , Russkiy Mir Foundation , February 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ René Guerra, Sauver Nabokov. La thèse de doctorat d'Anatoly Livry , in: Vestnik Rossijskoj Akademii Obrazovanija , 1.2014, pp. 53–55.
  5. ↑ La Collection René Guerra ou la peinture de l'âme russe , sothebys.com , March 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Žal 'russkij narod". Perepiska Rene Gerrra s dejateljami sovetskoj kul'tury. Editions Albatros, Paris 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Guerra, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Slavist, literary historian and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg