Rid Iossifowitsch Grachev
Rid Iossifowitsch Gratschow ( Russian Рид Иосифович Грачёв , also transcribed: Reed Gračev ; born as Rid Iossifowitsch Wite ( Russian Рид Иосифович Вите ) was a Russian writer on July 18, 1935 in Leningrad ; died November 1, 2004 in St. Petersburg in Leningrad ; died November 1, 2004 in St. Petersburg .
Life
Rid Wite lost his parents in the blockade of Leningrad and grew up in orphanages and with relatives. Wite studied journalism at Leningrad University from 1953 to 1959 . He wrote prose under the stage name Grachev, which he had chosen in memory of his mother, the journalist Mauli Arsenjewna Wite, who marked her articles with her father's last name. Gratschow tried to translate Albert Camus ' The Stranger from the French. Gračev's translation of The Myth of Sisyphus and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Lettre Inédite au General C circulated as samizdat in Leningrad in the 1960s .
Gratschow was involved in the local writers' association LITO. He was friends with Joseph Brodsky , Andrei Bitow saw him as his role model, and the critic Lydia Ginzburg was also one of the group that met in his apartment. Grachev's prose was not printed, and he subsequently became mentally ill and spent time in psychiatric clinics. A massively shortened prose volume Где твой дом (Where are you at home?), Which then appeared in 1967, was rather humiliation, despite a circulation of 30,000 copies.
Fonts (selection)
- Где твой дом / Рассказы. Сов. писатель, М.-Л. 1967.
- Ничей брат: Эссе, рассказы. [Послесл. Я. Гордина; Худож. Л. Авидон]. Слово, Moscow 1994.
- Письмо заложнику. Издательство журнала "Звезда", СПб. 2013, ISBN 978-5-7439-0190-6 .
- Сочинения. Издательство журнала "Звезда", СПб. 2013, ISBN 978-5-7439-0190-6 .
- Tomatoes: eight stories . From the Russ. trans. by Peter Urban . Edited and with an afterword by Brigitte van Kann. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2014
literature
- Carol Ueland: Unknown Figure in a Wintry Landscape: Reid Grachev and Leningrad Literature of the Sixties. In: The Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 361-369. doi : 10.2307 / 309550
- Oleg Jurjew : Неспособность к искажению. In: Nowi Mir. 2014, no.8 (Russian, accessed November 8, 2014)
- Judith Leister: Vodka bottle in Lake Baikal , review, in: NZZ , July 4, 2015, p. 26
Web links
- Literature by and about Rid Iossifowitsch Gratschow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Rid Grachev in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Reed Gračev , at Friedenauer Presse
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ben Kaden: Reed Gračev's dispute about happiness. at Libreas, October 29, 2014.
- ^ Yekaterina Young: Sergei Dovlatov and His Narrative Masks. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill. 2009, p. 133.
- ^ Lev Losev : Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life . Translation from Russian into English by Jane Ann Miller. Yale 2011, p. 266, fn. 36.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grachev, Rid Iossifowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wite, Rid Iossifowitsch (maiden name); Gračev, Reed (English transcription); Грачёв, Рид Иосифович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 2004 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |