Henri Girshevich Volokhonsky ( March 19, 1936 , Leningrad , RSFSR , USSR - April 8, 2017 , Horb am Neckar [1] , Germany ) - Russian poet , prose writer and translator , playwright, philosopher, environmental scientist.
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| Occupation | poet, prose writer, translator, playwright, philosopher, ecologist |
| Language of Works | Russian |
| Awards | Andrey Bely Prize |
Biography
Henri Volokhonsky was born on March 19, 1936 in Leningrad . He graduated from the Leningrad Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute , graduate school of the Institute of Lake Fisheries.
For twenty-four years he worked in various fields of chemistry and ecology, the author of scientific works in this field [2] . He participated in expeditions to the oceans, seas and lakes. Based on the thermodynamic (entropy) analysis, he proposed an expression for calculating the energy measure of the supply of phytoplankton with one of the elements of mineral nutrition [3] .
In the late 1950s he began to write poetry, songs and plays; published in samizdat (starting with typewritten books of the mid-1960s, published by Vladimir Earl ).
Only one poem was published in the USSR - the centaur fable in the Aurora magazine in 1972.
At the end of 1973, Volokhonsky received permission to travel to Israel , where he lived from December 31, 1973. In Israel, he worked at a limnological station on the Sea of Galilee , and published scientific papers based on field research. As a poet published in Israeli and European periodicals (the magazines Colon, Mirror, Solar Plexus, Salamanders almanac). In 1983, the first book of the Volkhonsky “Poems” was published in the United States [4] . In autumn 1985 he moved to Munich , where until August 1995 he worked as editor of the news department of Radio Liberty , after which he moved to Tübingen . Since 2004 he lived in the city of Horb , in the urban area of Rexingen.
Henri Volokhonsky died on the night of April 8, 2017 , in a dream, at the 82nd year of his life [5] .
Sister is a famous translator of fiction from Russian into English Larisa Volokhonskaya (works together with her husband - Richard Pivert ).
Creativity
Volokhonsky owns a large number of poetic works, from ironic miniatures to poems in which epic and mythological motifs undergo unexpected processing combining irony with metaphysics. In the early works of Volokhonsky, fables and songs predominate, many of which were written jointly with Alexei Khvostenko (general signature A. Kh. V.).
| His poems are characterized by grotesque, irony and parody; the impetus for their occurrence can serve as a philosophical position, as well as an everyday occurrence. They pose many questions, the answers to which are offered only by a hint, clothed in a language full of images. Sometimes the aesthetic effect of Volokhonsky's verses is based solely on bold phrases, neologisms, musical sound and impudent rhyme.Wolfgang Cossack |
Of the works of Volokhonsky, the poem “ Paradise ” (“Above the Blue Sky ...”), written to the music of Vladimir Vavilov and subsequently performed by Alexei Khvostenko, and then Boris Grebenshchikov in the film “ Assa, ” became most famous.
Several texts were written by Volokhonsky in prose; of these, the novel “Roman Pokoynichek” is the most famous.
In exile, Volokhonsky was also engaged in literary translation, having published a book of transcriptions from Catullus (1982), “GLITTER” - extracts from the book “Zohar” (1994) and a collection of fragments translated from James Joyce ’s novel “ Finnegans Wake ” (2000).
He recorded a number of albums and songs with the famous rock musician Leonid Fedorov :
- 2004 - Mountains and rivers - Volokhonsky, Fedorov, Ozersky, Voloshin
- 2004 - Joyce - Volokhonsky, Fedorov, Volkov
- 2005 - Thawed - Volokhonsky, Fedorov, Volkov , Martynov , Ozersky , A. Smurov, A. Molev
- 2008 - Sheaf of dreams - Volokhonsky, Khvostenko , Fedorov, Volkov
In addition, Leonid Fedorov included the monologue of Henri Volokhonsky in the albums “ There Will Be No Winter ” (2000) and “ Anabena ” (2001) entitled “Lady Give”. On the recording, Henri Volokhonsky dictates to Fedorov the text of a new song dedicated to the death of Princess Diana , and comments on it.
Proceedings
- 1977 - The Ninth Renaissance. - Haifa
- 1978 - "Poems for Xenia." - Tiberias
- 1981 - "Four poems about one." - Tiberias
- 1982 - Guy Valery Catull. New translations. " - Jerusalem
- 1982 - "The Mortuary Roman". - New York, ed. Gnosis Press
- 1983 - "Poems." - Ann Arbor
- 1984 - Notebook Igreyny. - Jerusalem
- 1984 - “Fables of A.H. V.” - Paris. (Together with Alexei Khvostenko )
- 1984 - Genesis and the Apocalypse. Commentary on the books of Genesis, Creation, and Revelation of John. " - Jerusalem, Maler Publications
- 1986 - The Skin of the Tambourine. - Jerusalem
- 1989 - "Poems about the reasons." - Germany (Publishing house "Vysmysel", place not specified)
- 1990 - Lime. - Paris, Syntax
- 1991 - "The Tale of the Great Love of Lana and Tarbagatai." - Paris, Syntax
- 1993 (?) - “Thomas. An amazing poem about the famous scholastic ... ". - Cologne (year not specified)
- 1994 - “Shine. Extracts from the book Zogar translated by A. V. ”- Germany
- 1994 - "Pansies of the garden." - Perm
- 2001 - "Tiberias poems." - Moscow
- 2004 - The Den of the Bees. - Tver. (Together with Alexei Khvostenko )
- 2007 - “Memories of a Long Forgotten.” - Moscow
- 2012 - Collection of works in 3 volumes . - Moscow: New Literary Review, 2012. - ISBN 978-5-86793-997-7 , 978-5-86793-998-4, 978-5-86793-999-1.
- 2016 - “Liturgical texts and psalms in Russian”. - Moscow
- 2016 - A. Kh. V. “The General Collection of Works”. - Moscow, UFO (together with Alexei Khvostenko )
Discography
- 2004 - Mountains and rivers - Volokhonsky, Fedorov , Ozersky , Voloshin .
- 2004 - Joyce - Volokhonsky, Fedorov , Volkov .
- 2008 - Sheaf of dreams - Volokhonsky, Khvostenko , Fedorov , Volkov .
Scientific Publications
- Volokhonsky A. G. Fisheries study of inland waters (L.), J * 3, 51 (1970); RZhKhim, 1970.
- Volokhonsky A.G. Genetic code and symmetry // Symmetry in nature. - L., 1971.P. 371-375.
- Volokhonsky A.G. On the formal structure of the genetic code // Modern Problems of Cytology and Genetics No. 6. Novosibirsk, 1971.
- Volokhonsky A.G. Structural and energy aspects of the problem of deficiency of nutrients // Ecology. - 1973, no. 2. - S. 5-11.
- Volokhonsky, H., Shmain, E. & Serruya, S .. Lake Kinneret water biotopes: a mathematical model of thermal stratification for environmental purposes. Ecological Modeling, 9, 91-120, 1980.
- Volokhonsky, H. Event-oriented approach to the ecological modeling of Lake Kinnereth. In: Hopkins, T. (Ed.) : Quantitative analysis and simulation of Mediterranean coastal ecosystems: The Gulf of Neaples. A Case Study. Rome: FAO, 1983, pp. 91-120.
Notes
- ↑ BBC: “The Russian-speaking avant-garde poet Henri Volokhonsky died in Germany”
- ↑ V. D. Tsvetkov “Heart, Golden Harmony and Optimality” Archived April 9, 2017 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ G. T. Frumin, Jean-Jean Huang “Thermodynamic assessment of the state of water bodies”
- ↑ Ilya Kukuy. About the author of these books (Intro. Word). Collected works in three volumes. Henri of Volhonsky. Volume I. S. 5-10.
- ↑ The poet Henri Volokhonsky died
Literature
- 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 .
Links
- Henri Volokhonsky in the " Journal Hall "
- Henri Volokhonsky on the site "Unofficial poetry"
- Henri Volokhonsky in the electronic archive of the Andrei Bely Center
- Denis Ioffe: Henri Volokhonsky and the memory of the literal term of numerology / Interview
- Bibliography of creativity on the Mitin magazine site
- Philologist drove herds of centaurs (announcement of the collected works of Henri Volokhonsky) Radio Liberty , October 24, 2012
- Audio Archive of Henry Volokhonsky . Arzamas .