Sergey Yakovlevich Magid (born June 20, 1947 , Leningrad ) is a Russian poet, prose writer, translator, and essayist.
Biography
Born in Leningrad, graduated from the eight-year school 321 (the former First St. Petersburg gymnasium), then the last three classes of the eleven-year school 297 with vocational training.
In 1965 he entered the evening English department of the philological faculty of Leningrad State University. In the spring of 1966 he left the university and in the fall of 1966 he was drafted into the Soviet army. He served as a radio operator in the missile part, was a member of several large-scale exercises and business trips.
In 1969 he was demobilized. Returning to Leningrad, in 1970 he again entered the evening English department of the philological faculty of Leningrad State University. He graduated from the university in 1976, having defended his thesis on the topic "Badlands" TS Eliot. "
Since the work was defended “excellent with honors”, he was recommended to graduate school, successfully passed all exams, but was not accepted.
He worked as an OTK master at a factory, a carpenter in the Hermitage, a laboratory assistant, a projectionist, a translator of technical texts, an English teacher at the universities of Leningrad, a watchman on construction sites, and a typesetter at the Printing House printing house.
In 1981-1988 He was a member of the Club-81 association of Leningrad uncensored authors, in his poetic and translation sections. He participated in the creation of the translation magazine “Preposition”.
In 1985-1990 He was engaged in active anti-regime activities, was elected to the Coordinating Council of the organization “For the Popular Front!”, headed his theoretical group. He took part in the work on an alternative draft of the Constitution of Russia. He was a member of the editorial board of Democracy and We.
In 1990, he left the USSR on a Czechoslovak visa obtained after the "velvet revolution" in Czechoslovakia.
Lives in Prague. Works at the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Magid's poetry began to appear in samizdat in the mid-1970s. In the early 1980s, Magid turned to the verliber , having achieved expressiveness, emotional strength and psychological accuracy in describing the worldview of a modern person in the context of an urban landscape and a totalitarian society. Magid’s poetry of this period has a strong Jewish theme. 1985 includes the first "official" publication of Magid in the collection "Circle". Poems of Magid 1990-2000's. return to the syllabo-tonic .
In the 2000s Magid also published several prose writings (the magazines Zerkalo , Neva , Foreign Literature , and Domestic Notes).
Compositions
- Service Zone: Selected Poems. - M .: New Literary Review , 2003. - 120 p. - ISBN 5-86793-262-1
- In the Elah Valley (inaccessible link) - M .: Aquarius , 2010 .-- 216 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-033-5
- Beyond this landscape: Diaries 1997-2001 - M .: Aquarius , 2011 .-- 272 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-076-2
- Angulus / Opticus: Third Book of Poems. 2009-2011 - M .: Aquarius, 2012 .-- 240 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-115-8
- The first hundred. - M .: Aquarius, 2013 .-- 136 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-170-8 ( [1] )
- Reflections and trees. Poems of 1963-1990 M .: Aquarius, 2014 .-- 359 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-227-8
- Dichtung und Wildheit. Comments on the poems of 1963-1990 - M .: Aquarius, 2014 .-- 319 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-228-5
- Old prose. - M .: Aquarius, 2015 .-- 288 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-260-5
- The second hundred. About insulting the soul. - M .: Aquarius, 2016 .-- 314 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-325-1
- About states of consciousness. The experience of the historiosophy of Russian life. - M.: Aquarius, 2017 .-- 480 p. - ISBN 978-5-91763-400-5