Gennadiy Aygi

Gennady Nikolayevich Aigi ( Chuvash Геннадий Николаевич Айхи, Russian Геннадий Николаевич Айги; born August 21, 1934 in Schaimursino, Chuvashia, † 21 February 2006 in Moscow), born as Gennady Nikolayevich Lisin was a Chuvash poet who wrote in Russian and Chuvash. He has received numerous awards and been considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Life and work

The poet Gennady Aigi was born in Schaimursino in today's Chuvash Republic. He belongs to the ethnic minority of the Chuvash.

His aliases Chuvash name means as much as "the there ", " same also ." His first poems in the 1950s appeared in the Chuvash language. This collection of poems, with the Gennadi Aigi wanted to finish his studies in 1957 at the Maxim Gorki Institute of Literature in Moscow, was rejected. In 1958, he was " of writing a hostile book of poetry, which undermines the foundations of the method of socialist realism " expelled from the Komsomol and the Literature Institute for. At the beginning of the sixties of the 20th century, his verses first appeared in samizdat, and later in Tamisdat.

Through his poet friend Boris Pasternak excited he wrote exclusively Russian since 1960 - an attempt to overcome the exclusion language. But in 1964 he received publication ban should apply approximately 25 years.

International action

Despite the isolation Gennadi Aigi was, has described the Roman Jakobson as the greatest living Russian poet, in Germany and France, soon a household name. In 1971, he with the band start of clearing in Germany a highly respected poet. He translated Dante and Federico García Lorca, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Walt Whitman in his mother tongue and was the editor of an anthology Chuvash poetry. His poems have been published in 23 countries have been translated into 44 languages ​​and have won numerous awards. On the basis of his poem " field - A sudden: Poppy " develops the poet Anja Utler poetic foundations of their writing.

Literary classification

Aigis seal feeds on Chuvash folk tradition and rooted in a profound Orthodox faith. At the same time a variety of literary models in his work can be identified. To this end, in addition to the French Symbolists such as Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud include the Russian Futurists by Mayakovsky. Characteristic composition principle Aigis is by breaking classical poetic forms made ​​possible extreme shortening and compression of language: There is not going to him the description of the world, so Aigi, but about the " abstract absoluteness of world phenomena by the poet ." He further said, " My works are no icons, no metaphors, allegories. My work is awakening by a shrill light where a human tip - the word -. Becomes the orbit, where man united with nature and the universe "

Others

Gennadi Aigi was a participant at the International Literature Festival Berlin 2003.

Awards (selection)

Membership

• Member of the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg (since 1991)
• Member of the Russian PEN (since 1995)
• Chairman of the Editorial Board of the magazine The Face Chuvash of Chuvashia (Russian: Лик Чувашии ) since 1994

Works

• Life after death sentence. Lamuv, Bornheim, 1982
• Beginning of the clearing. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, 1971 ( new edition 1992, ISBN 3-518-22103-5 )
• The poet of the poet of the rose. Ten poems. Fuchs Taler Press, Denklingen 1991
• From fields of Russia. Poems. Prose. Illustrated by Kasimir Malevich, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, 1991 ( new edition 2002, ISBN 3-518-40341-9 )
• And: For Malevich. 1991
• Dedication roses. Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1991
• Greeting the song. Rainer, Berlin, 1992
• In the garden snow. 1993
• Veronica's book. The first half of my daughter. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1993, ISBN 3- 458-19133 -X
• Boris Pasternak. Memories on the occasion of his 100th birthday and seven poems. Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1993
• Conversations à distance. Circé, Saulxures, 1994
• With vocals: In order to complete. Poems. Edition by proxy, Vienna 1995
• Of: there. With 40 recordings of Gunther Uecker, publishing gallery bay, St. Gallen 1995
• Purer than sense. Poems. Illustrated by Günther Uecker, publishing gallery bay, St. Gallen 1997
• Selected Works. Volume 1: Poems, Volume 2: Leaves in the Wind, conversations, speeches, essays. Edition by proxy, Vienna 1995/1998, ISBN 3-901118-19-5 ISBN 3-901118-20-9 and
• Wind outside the window. Mixed poems. Publisher gallery bay, St. Gallen 1998, ISBN 3-905546-45-0
• Sheets to the wind. Selected Works, Vol 2 Edition by proxy, Vienna, 1998
• Wind outside the window. St. Gallen, 1998