Ilya Veniaminovich Bokshtein ( March 11, 1937 , Moscow , USSR - October 18, 1999 , Jaffa , Israel ) - poet , artist , essayist , translator [1] .
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| Date of Birth | March 11, 1937 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , USSR |
| Date of death | October 18, 1999 (62 years old) |
| A place of death | Jaffa , Tel Aviv District , Israel |
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| Occupation | poet |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Poet about himself
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Born March 11, 1937 in Moscow . Had bone tuberculosis. He was in the hospital for more than seven years.
Dissident . In 1961 he was convicted of anti-Soviet propaganda on Mayakovsky Square and sent to prison for five years, Dubrovlag -17, Potma, Mordovia. Released in August 1966 . To register in Moscow, he was forced to pretend to be a mental illness. He spent several months in a psychiatric hospital.
He continued to write poetry, studied foreign languages. Communicated with priests Dmitry Dudko , Gleb Yakunin , Deacon Boris Khaibulin [1] .
In 1972 he repatriated to Israel . He lived in Tel Aviv . Bockstein’s library and archive are considered lost.
He died on October 18, 1999 in Jaffa.
According to some reports, Bulat Okudzhava dedicated the song “Paper Soldier” to the poet Ilya Veniaminovich Bokshtein (“One soldier in the world lived a beautiful and courageous ...”) [2] .
Creativity
The facsimile book “Glare of the Wave” (Bat Yam, 1986).
About 50 publications in the literary periodicals of Israel and other countries: in magazines and almanacs “Time and We”, “22”, “Aleph”, “Jerusalem Journal”, “Colon”, “ New Literary Review ” [3] ; in anthologies: “At the Blue Lagoon” (USA, 1984, compiled by K. Kuzminsky ), “Mulet” (France, 1985, compiled by V. Kotlyarov ), “Anthology of Russian poetry of the 20th century” (1986, compiled by P. Levy) , "Poet - To Poet" (1990 and 2000, compiled by R. McCain), both from Great Britain, with a translation into English by R. McCain; Anthology "Gnosis" (1993-94, Russia, compiled by A. Rovner ); Liberated Ulysses (2004, compiled by D. Kuzmin ), Anthology of Israel Poetry 2005 (compiled by A. M. Kobrinsky).
A trilogy of selected lifetime publications of I. Bokshtein (compiled by Minna Lane) was published posthumously in Jerusalem: “I wanted to be loved”, ISBN 965-7129-13-3 , (2001); “The Star speaks with the Moon” ISBN 965-7129-25-7 , (2002); “The avant-garde player went to the roof” ISBN 965-7129-26-5 , (2003).
Poet about himself
It was 1937 in Moscow, but I was born.
Then he studied at the Institute of Culture.
He recognized himself as a poet late in the forty-second year.
All that came before (performances on Mayakovsky Square,
arrest, five years of Mordovian camps, departure) - it seems to me a rough draft, darkness.
And it’s hard to remember yourself before the first insight.
I only remember how in my youth I dreamed of heroic deeds,
how many; hoped to create something immortal or surrender
for something very good and unusual.
However, maybe it all seems to me now, because before creativity, it was not me, but a completely different person.
I. Bokshtein
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Dissident Writers: Bibliographic Articles // UFO. - 2004. - No. 66.
- ↑ MAYAKOVSKY SQUARE - TEL AVIV
- ↑ Bokshtein I. Poems and drawings of facsimiles. // UFO. - 1995. - No. 16. - S. 255-257.
Links
- Ilya Bokshtein on the site "Unofficial Poetry"
- The film about Ilya Bokshtein
- http://www.futurum-art.ru/autors/bokshteyn.php
- http://www.antho.net/library/bokstein/index.php
- Ilya Bokshtein in the Jerusalem Poetic Almanac