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Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev ( rus, Дми́трий Васи́льевич Бо́бышев; born 11 April 1936,
Mariupol
Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russian i ...
) is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic.
Biography
Dmitry Bobyshev was born on 11 April 1936 in
Mariupol
Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russian i ...
. From his childhood he lived in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. During the
Siege of Leningrad
The siege of Leningrad (russian: links=no, translit=Blokada Leningrada, Блокада Ленинграда; german: links=no, Leningrader Blockade; ) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of L ...
, Bobyshev's father died, and after the war he was adopted by his stepfather. In 1959 he graduated from the
Leningrad Institute of Technology. He worked for 10 years as an engineer for chemical equipment. Later, he became an editor on television.
Bobyshev started to write poetry in the mid-1950s. His poems were published in
samizdat
Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...
(including
Alexander Ginzburg
Alexander "Alik" Ilyich Ginzburg ( rus, Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Ги́нзбург, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɨˈlʲjidʑ ˈɡʲinzbʊrk, a=Alyeksandr Il'yich Ginzburg.ru.vorb.oga; 21 November 1936 – 19 July 2002), was a Russian journalist ...
's journal ''
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...
"''). In the early 1960s, along with
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...
,
Anatoly Naiman
Anatoly Genrikhovich Naiman ( rus, Анатолий Генрихович Найман; 23 April 1936 – 21 January 2022) was a Russian poet, translator and writer. He was one of the four Akhmatova's Orphans.
Biography
Born on 23 April 1936 in ...
,
Yevgeny Rein Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include:
:''Note: Occasionally, a person may b ...
, Bobyshev entered the inner circle of Anna Akhmatova.
[Дмитрий Бобышев](_blank)
/ref> Bobyshev's first book of poems, ''Hiatus,'' was published in 1979 in Paris.
In 1979, Bobyshev emigrated to the United States, where he taught Russian language and literature. In 1983, he became a US citizen. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.The Slavic Department at the University of Illinois
/ref> Bobyshev is the author of six books of poetry, a number of poetry translations (modern American poetry) and volumes of prose memoir, ''I am here'' (2003).
Among the circle of Akhmatova, Bobyshev stands apart aesthetically. While, like Brodsky Brodsky, feminine: Brodskaya ( Ukrainian: Бродський, Russian: Бродский) is a toponymic surname derived from Brody, a town in Ukraine. The name is common among Ashkenazi Jews.
Czech-language forms are Brodský and Brodská.
Notab ...
, he is rooted in a century and a half of Russian poetic tradition, Bobyshev chooses more radical manifestations of this tradition.
References
External links
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Рецензия на роман-трилогию Дмитрия Бобышева "Человекотекст". "Новый Журнал №279, 2015
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Новая литературная карта России
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People from Mariupol
1936 births
Living people
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Soviet poets
Soviet male writers
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni