Corwin, Tamara

Born in Novosibirsk, where her mother and brother moved from Minsk during the evacuation . Later, the family returned to Minsk, where Tamara entered a music school. In her first year at the Minsk Conservatory, Tamara Korvin was arrested by the Belarusian KGB for participating in the dissident movement . By luck and thanks to the intercession of VI. Petrova , Corvin escaped arrest, but was forced to briefly stop training at the conservatory. Vincent Pukhov, in his memoirs, says that in the Minsk dissident circle “power and order were scolded without restraint. They took them at that moment when they were traveling by train to a meeting in Moscow with the same “circle members”. As a result, [Tamara Korvin] was expelled from the conservatory, the Komsomol, and worked for more than a year as an installer at a radio factory ” ^[2] . In the USSR, this practice of banning the profession was routinely applied by the KGB and party organs against active members of the dissident movement.

After moving to Leningrad in 1964 , Corvin graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatory in 1968 . Rimsky-Korsakov . She worked at the Opera Theater of Almaty, a teacher at the music school in the city of Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region and the music school at the Leningrad Officers' House ( 1971 - 1985 ), as an operator in the gas boiler room.

Since the 1980s, Corwin has been published in samizdat. In the Leningrad magazine " Hours " published the story "Pied Piper", "Monologue", "Winner", "Impostor". The story "Pied Piper" was published in the Moscow magazine " Consent " (1993) and the anthologies "Collection", edited by Boris Ivanov (St. Petersburg, 2003). She also published philosophical and critical essays about the work of Brodsky , Eliot and other authors. Some of the works of Tamara Corvin are difficult to read and require special training, but deserve the high recognition of critics.

In the mid-1970s, Tamara Corvin converted to Catholicism as a result of the influence of the Superior of the Order of the Dominican sisters of the Monastery of St. Sixtus in Rome. Corvinus correspondence with the abbess of the monastery in Italian has been preserved to this day.

Received the Andrei Bely Prize in 1983. She died in 2012 in St. Petersburg, where she was buried at the Serafimov cemetery with her parents.

In the preface to the anthology “Collection”, Mikhail Berg draws attention to the protest-escapist character of Corvin's prose. Soviet reality for the writer - "only a dream of reason":

... the signs of modernity are so insignificant that the idea of ​​contrasting the genuine (timeless) and the present (momentary, transient) becomes dominant. Only drunk, the hero begins to speak in a modern lowered language ...

Andrei Uritsky notes:

... laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize, Tamara Korvin, author of the story "The Pied Piper", in which, like Yevgeny Schwarz or Gorin , gives a variation on the theme of the classic fairy tale. Corwin considers the artist's clash with power, the crowd with music, mixing the realities of the modern world with the stylized European cityscape of the past centuries ^[3] .

Dmitry Volchek in 1984 in the magazine “Watch” (“Speech about Tamara Korvin”) wrote:

... books Corwin - one of the most striking phenomena of informal literature of the last decade. The range of this prose is colossal, the chain of associations is endless: here is the Prague school: Eisenreich , Meyrink , and the famous Swiss: Max Frisch and Durrenmatt , and East ...

Father - Z.Ya. Dvorkin - Soviet military commander, head of the military construction directorate of the Leningrad Front ( 1943 - 1945 ), lieutenant general of engineering and technical services ( 1962 ).

Brother - VZ Dvorkin - Soviet and Russian scientist and military leader, Doctor of Technical Sciences ( 1972 ), Professor ( 1983 ), Major General ( 1991 ), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation ( 1993 ).

I was not married, no children.

Paradox (story, Watch magazine No. 23, 1980)

Heir (story, Watch magazine No. 23, 1980)

Vacations (story, Watch magazine No. 23, 1980)

Monologue (story, Watch magazine, No. 32, 1981)

Winner (story, Watch magazine, No. 42, 1983)

Case (story, Watch magazine, No. 44, 1983)

The Pretender (novella, Watch magazine, No. 67, 1987)

Emperor (the story on the website of the Andrei Bely Prize) ^[4]

Notes commentator. Author's collection. M .: 1999. 376 p. ^[five]

Collection: Petersburg Prose (Leningrad period). Publisher Ivan Limbach, 2003. 528 p. ^[6] ISBN 5-89059-043-X

Tamara Corvin's page on the Andrei Bely Prize website (inaccessible link)

Watch magazine archive (inaccessible link)

Korvin Tamara Zinovievna in the electronic archive of the Center Andrei Bely