Wenedikt Wassiljewitsch Erofejew

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Wenedikt Wassiljewitsch Erofejew ( Russian Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев , scientific transliteration Venedikt Vasil'evič Erofeev ; born October 24, 1938 in Kirovsk ; † May 11, 1990 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer .

Life

Gravestone of Erofeev with a portrait in the Kunzewoer Cemetery in Moscow

Erofejew was the son of a station master from the Volga region. He graduated from school with a gold medal and studied at the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov University in Moscow . After his relegation from the university for failing to do military exercises in 1957, he first briefly visited the Pedagogical Institute in Vladimir , but was soon expelled from the city as the leader of a student group called The Popes . As a result, he was forced to take on various temporary jobs: he worked as a stoker, guard, in a returnable bottle acceptance, as a member of a parasitological expedition and as a fitter in the telecommunications system.

He condensed these experiences, as well as his alcoholism , into his famous novel Moscow - Petushki . The specifically Russian genre of the novel is poem . It was created in 1969. The painter Vitali Stesin , who advocated the departure of Jewish dissidents, smuggled the manuscript when he left for Israel. There it appeared in 1973 in the Israeli magazine Ani in Russian. The first book edition was a French translation. The book was banned for a long time in the Soviet Union and could not appear until 1988.

In the 1980s, Erofejew began to learn German; out of anger at the Soviet literary scene, he is said to have threatened to write his next work in German. In 1987, Erofeyev was baptized a Catholic. He died of throat cancer in 1990 .

From his estate, diary entries from 1956 and 1957 were published in 2001 .

Works (selection)

  • Moscow - Petushki ( Москва - Петушки ), prose poem, 1969/1973
  • Vasily Rosanov from the perspective of an eccentric ( Василий Розанов глазами эксцентрика ), essay, 1973
  • Walpurgis Night , or the Commander's Steps ( Вальпургиева ночь, или Шаги Командора ), Tragedy, 1985
  • My little Leniniana ( Моя маленькая лениниана ), 1988
  • The Dissidents, or Fanny Kaplan ( Диссиденты, или Фанни Каплан ), Drama Fragment, 1995
  • Unnecessary fossil ( Бесполезное ископаемое ), from the diaries, 2001

German editions

  • The trip to Petuschki , translated by Natascha Spitz, Munich 1978
  • Moscow - Petuški. A poem , translated by Peter Urban, Zurich 2005
  • Notes of a psychopath , from the diaries, translated by Thomas Reschke, Cologne 2004

literature

  • Svetlana Gajser-Snitman: Venedikt Erofeev, "Moskva-Petuski" and "the rest is silence" . Lang, Bern a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-261-03949-3
  • Cynthia Simmons: Their father's voice. Vassily Aksyonov , Venedikt Erofeev, Eduard Limonov , and Sasha Sokolov . Lang, New York et al. a. 1993, ISBN 0-8204-2160-X
  • Heinrich Pfandl: Foreword by the editor . In: Jurij Levin: Commentary on the poem Moskva-Petuški by Venedikt Erofeev. Graz 1996, pp. 7-11 (transl. From pp. 13-17).
  • Neil Stewart: "Vstan 'i vspominaj". Resurrection as a collage in Venedikt Erofeevs Moskva-Petuški . Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-631-34389-2

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Erofejew, Wenedikt Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erofeev, Venedict Vasil'evič; Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirovsk
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1990
Place of death Moscow