Aigi, Gennady Nikolaevich

Born in the village of Shaimurzino in Chuvashia , in the family of a teacher, Chuvash by nationality. Father died during the Great Patriotic War. From a young age he wrote poetry in the Chuvash language, in 1953 he graduated from the Batyrev Pedagogical School and entered the Gorky Literary Institute , where he studied in the creative workshop of Mikhail Svetlov .

In March 1958 , he was expelled from the institute “for writing a hostile book of poems that undermines the foundations of the method of socialist realism” ^[5] (“The Ordinance of a Miracle.” Original for the first time: “Friendship of Peoples”, 1993, No. 12). Under the influence of Pasternak, Aigi began to write in Russian, and also decided to stay in Moscow - and for 10 years (1961-1971) headed the isosector in the State Museum of V.V. Mayakovsky .

In parallel to the original poetic work in Russian, Aigi did a lot of translating world poetry into Chuvash, creating the anthologies "Poets of France", "Poets of Hungary", "Poets of Poland". The role of Aigi in the world propaganda of Chuvash poetry and Chuvash culture is recognized. Since the early 1960s Aygi poems are published in some countries in Russian and in translations into different languages; in Russia, the first book of Russian poems by Aigi appeared in 1991 - and since that time he has been one of the most experimentally oriented Russian poets of the older generation.

A special place in the life and work of Aigi was occupied by the Russian artist Igor Vulokh . Their friendship began in 1961. In 1988, in the preface to the monograph by on Vulokh, the verses of Gennady Aigi “Twelve Parallels to Igor Vulokh” were printed. In 1997, 2001, at the Vulokh personal exhibitions in Moscow, a joint exhibition with Aigi was organized, "Flourishes of Fire", dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Nobel Laureate Tumas Transtremer .

In Aigi's work, the influence of Chuvash and other Volga folklore, in general folk culture, is strong; he constantly turns to the oldest archetypes of popular consciousness. At the same time, Aigi directly continues the tradition of Russian and especially European (primarily French, but also German, especially in the person of Paul Celan ) poetic avant-garde, which can be seen, in particular, from the very special role that the visual-graphic play in his poetry text design, author’s punctuation system, very different from colloquial syntax , a system of end-to-end motives and keywords moving from text to text (this last property paradoxically makes Aigi’s poetry no longer with futurism , but with symbolism ).

Through the work of Aigi, there is a philosophical opposition of the idea of ​​the subject and its embodiment, the ratio, often referred to as the “double” himself. Aigi is a poet of abstract metaphors that are far from always deciphering, leaving the possibility of individual interpretation. In his verses, fragmentary images and thoughts clash, often expressed only in separate words, which, due to their isolation, impede attempts to interpret. <...> The extraordinary, innovative in Aigi’s poetry does not consist in a semantic game, but in a serious search for new, modern means of linguistic expressiveness directed against empty, emasculated functionality, against reducing the verse to mechanistic. Aigi's poetry is a spiritual protest in the name of genuine humanity.

- Wolfgang Cossack

Sophia Gubaidulina , Valentin Silvestrov , Valentin Bibik , Alexander Raskatov , Victoria Polevaya , Iraida Yusupova and others wrote music on Aigi's poems.

G.N. Aigi died on February 21, 2006 in Moscow, was buried in the cemetery of his native village.

The name Aigi was assigned to the Shaimurzinsky secondary school (in 2007 ^[6] ) and the prospectus in Cheboksary (in 2011 ^[7] ).

He contributed to the popularization of Chuvash poetry and Chuvash culture in the world. Aigi composed the “Anthology of Chuvash Poetry” and contributed to its translation into world languages. The anthology has been published in English, Hungarian, Italian, French and Swedish. ^[eight]

The elder brother of the Chuvash writer Eva Lisina. ^{[9] The} father of the composer, violinist and musical figure Alexei Aigi , as well as actress and VJ Veronica Aigi.

• Verses 1954-1971. - Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1975 . - 214 p.
• Marked Winter: A Collection of Poems. - Paris: Syntax, 1982 .
• Three poems. (Engravings by Nikolai Dronnikov ). - Paris, 1991 .-- 35 p.
• Here. Selected Poems. 1954-1988. - M .: Sovremennik, 1991 . - 288 p.
• Now there is always snow: Poems of different years. 1955-1989. - M .: Soviet writer, 1992 .
• Candles in the darkness and a few songs. - M.: Rarity-537, 1992 .-- 160 p.
• Notebook Veronica: The first half of the daughter. - M.: Gilea, 1997 . ISBN 5-85302-052-8
• Crow Word: Poems of different years. (Pictures by N. Dronnikov ). - Paris: Dronnikov-Konovalov, 1998 .-- 56 p.
• In memory of music (On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Schubert). - Shubashkar: Russika-Lik of Chuvashia, 1998 .-- 52 p. ISBN 5-87315-002-6
• Bow to singing: One hundred variations on the themes of folk songs of the Volga region. - M.: OGI, 2001 . - 56 p.
• Continuation of departure: Poems and poems. 1966-1998. - M.: OGI, 2001.
• The world of Sylvia. - M .: Publishing house "A and B". 2001.
• Conversation at a distance: Articles, essays, conversations, poems. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, 2001 .-- 304 p. ISBN 5-8370-0149-2
• Double Fields. - M.: OGI, 2006 . - 232 p. ISBN 5-94282-335-9
• Poems. Commented edition. Collection / Comp. G. M. Natapova. - M.: Rainbow, 2008 .-- 424 p. ISBN 978-5-05-006801-9
• Collected Works / comp. G. B. Aigi-Kuborskaya. - Cheboksary: ​​Chuvash Book Publishing House, 2009.
• Collected works. In 7 vols. - M.: Gilea, 2009 .-- 1200 p. (Volume 1. The beginning of the glade, Volume 2. Winter revels, Volume 3. The province of the living, Volume 4. Veronica's notebook, Volume 5. Field-Russia, Volume 6. Leaflets - during the holiday, Volume 7. Continuation of departure) ISBN 978- 5-87987-051-0 ; ISBN 978-5-87987-053-7

State Awards

• Endre Adi Memorial Medal of the Ministry of Culture of Hungary (1987)
• State Prize of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic named after K.V. Ivanova (1990)
• People's poet of the Chuvash Republic (1994)
• Commander of the Order of Arts and Literature (France, 1998)
• Certificate of honor of the Chuvash Republic (2004)

Public and Journal Awards

• Vasily Mitta Prize (Chuvashia, 1987)
• Andrei Bely Prize ( 1987 )
• A. Kruchenykh Prize ( 1991 )
• Petrarch Prize (1993)
• Golden Crown Award of the Struzhsky Poetry Festival (Macedonia, 1993)
• Honorary Doctor of the Chuvash University ( 1994 )
• Prize named after B. L. Pasternak (2000) - first laureate
• Laureate of the “ Children of Ra ” magazine ( 2004 )
• International mark of the father of Russian futurism David Burliuk ^[10]
• Repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature .

• Daenin E. E. “The word must be suffered” (about the poetry of Gennady Aigi) // In the world of books. - Moscow. - 1988. - No. 3. - S. ???
• Cossack V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIC "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .
• Novikov Vl. Freedom of speech. - Literary newspaper. - September 25, 1991.
• Novikov Vl. Aigists. - The banner. - 1997. - No. 8. - S. 238—239.
• Novikov Vl. Freedom does not happen too much. To disputes about the poetry of Gennady Aigi. - Friendship of Peoples. - 1997.- No. 11.
• Novikov Vl. Poetry is 100%. - Literary review. - 1998.- No. 5/6.
• Novikov Vl. More than a poet. Gennady Aigi’s world // Aigi G. Conversation at a distance. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, 2001 .-- S. 5 - 14.
• Novikov Vl. So said Aigi. Oral discourse of the poet // Russian Literature. - 2016. - No. 1. Vol. 79. P. 73 - 81.
• Novikova L. Mastery of silence. - Evening club. - July 19, 1994.
• Robel Leon . Aigi / Translation from French by O. Seversky. - M .: Agraf , 2003 .-- 224 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-7784-0217-1 .
• Creativity of Gennady Aigi: literary and artistic tradition and neo-avant-garde: Materials of the international scientific-practical conference. - Cheboksary, 2009.
• Ilya Kutik. “Aygi-Areopagit: Experience of“ Analytical “Approximation” (essay) on Postnonfiction.org
• Robel Léon . Aigui (collections "Poetes daujourdhui"). - Paris, 1993.

• Gennady Aigi on the Babylon website
• Gennady Aigi on the site " A New Map of Russian Literature "
• Gennady Aigi on the site "Unofficial Poetry"
• From the book by Gennady Aigi “Conversation at a distance” on the website “Edge”
• Book of artist Nikolai Dronnikov “Requiem for Gennady Aigi” on the website of the National Library of the Chuvash Republic
• Musical and poetic project in memory of the poet "Aigi's Bow" on the site "Circles"
• Gennady Aigi at the Olympus Circus
• Bibliography of translations into German
• Poems in English translation
• State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic: Aigi Gennady Nikolaevich