John Kournos ( born John Cournos ; birth name Ivan G. Korshun ; March 6, 1881 , Kiev - August 27, 1966 , New York ) is an English-American writer, poet, critic, translator of Russian literature.
| John Kurnos | |
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| John cournos | |
| Date of Birth | March 6, 1881 |
| Place of Birth | Kiev , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | August 27, 1966 (85 years old) |
| A place of death | New York , USA |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation | writer , poet , critic , translator |
| Years of creativity | 1914-1966 |
| Language of Works | English |
Biography
Born into a Jewish family in Kiev . In 1891 he emigrated to the United States. In 1912 he moved to England, where he joined the circle of Imagists ( Pound , Doolittle , Aldington ), which he later described in the novel Masters of Miranda (1926) and Autobiography (1935). In October 1917, as part of a government Russian-British mission, he visited Petrograd . Upon returning from Soviet Russia in March 1918, he engaged in anti-Bolshevik propaganda in England, writing a series of political pamphlets. In 1919, the first of Kurnos’s seven novels, The Mask, was released. In 1923, the only book of poems was published - "In Exile." In addition to his own work, Kurnos also was engaged in translations into English; in particular, in the mid-1910s. in his translation, three books by Fyodor Sologub were published: “The Little Devil ” (together with Aldington), “ The Created Legend ” and “The Old House”. In 1931, Kurnos returned to the United States. He was married to Helen Kestner, who wrote under the pseudonym Sybil Norton (1893-1960). After the war, the name of Kurnos was forgotten. Helen Kurnos went crazy and committed suicide. Kurnos himself at the end of his life suffered from arteriosclerosis. He died on August 27, 1966 in New York .
Selected Works
- Gordon Craig and the theater of the future (1914)
- The Mask (1919)
- London Under the Bolsheviks (1919)
- The wall (1921?)
- Babel (1922)
- The Best British Short Stories of 1922
- In Exile (1923)
- The New Candide (1924)
- Sport of gods (1925)
- Miranda Masters (1926)
- O'Flaherty the Great (1928)
- A modern Plutarch (1928)
- Short stories out of Soviet Russia (1929)
- Grandmother Martin Is Murdered (1930)
- Wandering Women / The samovar (1930)
- The Devil Is an English Gentleman (1932)
- Autobiography (1935)
- An epistle to the Hebrews (1938)
- An open letter to Jews and Christians (1938)
- Hear, O Israel (1938)
- Book of Prophecy From Egyptians to Hitler (1938)
- A Boy Named John (1941)
- A treasury of Russian life and humor (1943)
- Famous modern American novelists (1952)
- Pilgrimage to freedom (1953; written jointly with Sybil Norton, illustrated by Rus Anderson)
- American Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century (1955: Everyman's Library)
- A treasury of classic Russian literature (1961)
- With hey, ho ... and The man with the spats (1963)
- The Created Legend - translation of a book by Fyodor Sologub