Väino Ilus

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Väino Ilus (born December 8, 1929 in Viljandi ) is an Estonian writer .

Life

Väino Ilus went to school in Viljandi until 1941 and spent the years of World War II in the Soviet hinterland. After the war he learned locksmith in Viljandi and put as External 1956 in Tallinn the matriculation examination from. From 1952 he was a member of the CPSU , and from 1953 to 1957 he studied journalism at the party school in Tallinn. He then worked in various newspaper offices and from 1961 to 1981 he was employed by the literary magazine Looming . From 1968 to 1974 he was deputy editor-in-chief there, when Paul Kuusberg was head of the magazine.

Väino Ilus has been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1958 and lives in Tallinn.

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Ilus made his short story debut in the mid-1950s after winning a third prize in a novella competition and having been encouraged by Rudolf Sirge to edit his novella. Ilus published his first book in 1962. It soberly describes life in a kolkhoz farm and thus presents the contemporary problems of Estonian rural life. Even the early criticism stated that the work "exudes a certain dryness that is a consequence of the few virtuoso elements".

The subject of contemporary society runs through the author's entire prose work, with a comparison to the past being made at times. Local critics occasionally compared Ilus' work with Paul Kuusberg or the aforementioned Rudolf Sirge, but pointed conversely to the contrast with Mats Traat , who was working on a comparable subject with a different focus. He is often mentioned in the same breath as authors such as Einar Maasik , Veera Saar , Endel Tennov or Luise Vaher , who thematized everyday Soviet life. In general, Ilus is characterized as an author who gets by without spectacular innovations and maintains the “good old realism” without which contemporary literature would have a “weaker connection with life”.

In spite of this, his early works were also discussed in the exile magazine Mana , and not only negatively: Ivar Grünthal found an “almost dead-ass paradox” in the author , although he previously stated sarcastically: “ Ilus tries to fumigate the sclerosis of the personality cult with the unquenched lime of the class struggle . "

Many of his works have been translated into Russian, while in German there is only one short story in an anthology.

bibliography

  • Kand maas ('With the hoes on the earth'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1962. 196 pp.
  • Sinu enese elu ('Your own life'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1964. 244 pp.
  • Muutlike ilmade ajal ('In times of changeable weather') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1965. 180 pp.
  • Tuulekülvid ('Windsaat') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1968. 352 pp.
  • Öösiti on kahjulik mõtelda. Üksteist juttu. ('Thinking is harmful at night. Eleven stories') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1969. 134 pp.
  • Kaotusseis ('loss position') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1973. 190 pp.
  • Kohe pärast lapsepõlve. Jutte ('Immediately after childhood. Stories') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1976. 175 pp.
  • Kinsli peremehed ('The Lords of Kinsli') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1978. 287 pp.
  • Käekäik ('Being') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1986. 175 pp.
  • Endamisi ja unes ('In Stillen und im Schlaf') Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1989. 264 pp.

Secondary literature

  • Villem Gross : Igaüks peab Leidma oma koha, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 11/1962, pp. 696–697.
  • A. Hameri: Mõtlik tagasivaade, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 2/1965, pp. 114–115.
  • Ine Viiding : Igaüks peab Leidma oma koha, in: Looming 12/1968, pp. 1905–1909.
  • Endel Tennov: Raamatu sulgemise järel, in: Looming 4/1974, pp. 687-689.
  • August Eelmäe : Ratsionaalne kroonika, in: Looming 9/1978, pp. 1574–1576.
  • Ine Viiding: Tugevusproov, in: Kirjanduse Jaosmaa 1977. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1979, pp. 125–129.
  • Olev Jõgi : Väino Ilus: piirid ja nende ületamine, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 12/1979, pp. 724–728.
  • Ülo Tonts: Inimene iseeneses ja oma ajas, in: Looming 12/1979, pp. 1729–1735.
  • Ülo Tonts: Eneseksjäämise vaevad, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 11/1986, pp. 697–698.
  • Oskar Kruus : Kuidas sünnib jutustus? in: Looming 6/1989, pp. 834-836.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 127-128.
  2. ↑ "Keele ja Kirjanduse" ringküsitlus kirjanikele. Kuidas ja mille mõjul tekkis part huvi kirjanduse vastu? Kuidas valmisid Teie esimesed teosed ?, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 11/1973, p. 683.
  3. ↑ Villem Gross: Igaüks peab Leidma oma koha, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 11/1962, p. 697.
  4. ↑ Pärt Lias: Eesti nõukogude romaan. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1985, p. 107.
  5. ^ Ine Viiding: Igaüks peab Leidma oma koha, in: Looming 12/1968, p. 1908.
  6. ↑ Olev Jõgi: Väino Ilus: piirid ja nende ületamine, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 12/1979, p. 726.
  7. ↑ August Eelmäe: Ratsionaalne kroonika, in: Looming 9/1978, p. 1575.
  8. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 608.
  9. ↑ Ülo Tonts: Inimene iseeneses ja oma ajas, in: Looming 12/1979, p. 1735.
  10. ^ Ivar Grünthal: o. T. in: Mana 36 (1969), p. 109.
  11. ↑ Lotus, the beautiful flower. Translated by Aivo Kaidja, in: Estonian short stories. Selected by Endel Sõgel. Tallinn: Perioodika 1979, pp. 385-398.
personal data
SURNAME Ilus, Väino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Viljandi