Parnikel, Boris Borisovich

Born in the family of an employee. In 1958 he graduated from MGIMO of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1960, for nine months he served in the Navy in Vladivostok . In 1958-1960 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Asian Peoples . From 1962 to 1969, B. B. Parnikel headed the editorial department of the journal " Peoples of Asia and Africa ." In 1967 he became secretary, and in 1971, chairman of the “ Malay-Indonesian Readings ” ( Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov, Moscow Branch of the USSR Civil Defense ) ^[1] . Since 1969 he worked at the Institute of World Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1973 he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of philological sciences "On the issue of the roots of Malay-speaking literature and its place in the circle of literature of the Indonesian archipelago." In 1990, B. B. Parnikel created and until 2004 headed the Nusantara Society . In 1991, he was awarded a doctorate for the monograph “Regional artistic traditions and foreign cultural influence in the development of literature of the Indonesian archipelago and the Malay Peninsula (IX-XIX centuries)” ^[2] .

By his work, Parnikel B. B. created a new scientific direction - Malay literary criticism and laid the foundations for a comparative study of the literature and folklore of Nusantara (Malay island world) ^[3] . A great merit of the scientist is the translation into Russian and the publication of the monument of classical Malay literature " The Tale of Hang Tuah " ^[4] .

B. B. Parnikel was well known abroad ^[5] . He was a representative of Russia in the editorial board of the journal Indonesia and the Malay World (Indonesia and the Malay World, London), Excerpta Indonesica (Leiden), a corresponding member of the Royal Institute of Linguistics, Regional Studies and Ethnology (Netherlands), a guest writer for the Council for the language and literature of Malaysia ( Kuala Lumpur , 1990/1991), a visiting professor at the University of Malaya (Malaysia, 1996/1997) and an associate professor at the University of Natural Sciences (Penang, Malaysia, 1998/2000). Parnickel B. B. - The author of about 200 works, including in Malaysian and English ^[6] .

• Alexander Blok and Khairil Anwar // Peoples of Asia and Africa. 1965. No. 4. - S. 134-137.
• Parnikel B. B. Some questions of Balinese history and culture // Peoples of Asia and Africa. 1967, No. 1.
• To the question of the roots of Malay-language literature and its place in the circle of literature of the Indonesian archipelago. - M.: IV AN SSSR, 1972.
• Parnikel B. B. Transformation and rethinking of borrowed literary material (Indian epic heroes in Nusantara) // Typology and the relationship of literature of the East and West. M., 1974.
• Parnikel B. B. Concerning the polysemantics of the Malay-language “The Tale of Sang Bom” - Typological Studies on Folklore // Collection of memory of V. Ya. Propp. M., 1975.
• Parnikel B. B. Introduction to the literary history of Nusantara in the 9th — 19th centuries M., 1980.244 s. (Rec .: Lombard D. // Archipel. 1981, T. 22; Krupa V. // Asian and African Studies. 1983, vol. 18; Braginsky V.I. // NAA. 1984, No. 5; Eisengarten R. // Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. 1986, No. 86).
• Parnikel B. B. On the folklore affinity of the peoples of Southeast Asia. - Traditional and new in the literature of Southeast Asia. M., 1982.
• (Malay translation, foreword and notes) A ​​Tale of Hang Tuah. M .: "Science", Ch. ed. east lit., 1984.
• Literature of the Indonesian Archipelago and Malacca // History of World Literature: in 9 volumes. T. 5.M., 1988.S. 555-557.
• [Publ. text, per. from Malay., foreword, note., app.] Avang Semerah Muda. Malay legend recorded from Sidin bin Dalib. The transcription of Muhammad bin Shahidan. M .: "Heritage", 1994.
• Boris Parnickel. Penelitian Sastera Nusantara di Rusia. Kuala Lumpur: DBP, 1995.
• Boris Parnickel. Perkembangan Sastera Nusantara Serumpun (Abad ke-7 - ke-19). Kuala Lumpur: DBP, 1995.
• Boris Parnickel. Kajian perbandingan genre kesusasteraan lisan terpilih (pendekatan melalui puitika sejarahan) [Comparative study of selected genres of oral literature. Aspects of historical poetics]. Jil. 1. [Minden]: Universiti Sains Malaysia, [2000]. 161 ms.
• Parnickel B. B. Srividzhai epigraphy and the problem of the ancient Malay "Buddhist literature" // Buddhism and literature. Repl. ed. N.I. Nikulin. M .: "Heritage", 2003. S. 264–292.

• In 2004, the Nusantara Society devoted a collection of articles in the Malay-Indonesian Studies series to the memory of B. B. Parnickel. Xvi.
• February 6, 2014 at the Institute of World Literature. A.M. Gorky held a seminar on BB Parnikel (in connection with the 10th anniversary of death).