Yuli Daniel

July Markovich Daniel, pseudonym Nikolai Arshak / Arzak / Arshak (Russian Юлий Маркович Даниэль; * November 15, 1925 in Moscow, † December 30, 1988 ) was a Russian writer and translator of Jewish origin, with its " grotesquely satirical critical" narratives, " the principles of socialist realism contradict in their absurdity ," the samizdat, is the literary underground of his era attributed. He spent several years in prison.

Life

1942 come from the classroom to the front, Daniel was severely wounded and 1944 demobilized again. The young disabled veteran with pension studied from 1946 in Kharkov and Moscow education and then taught at schools in Kaluga and, from 1954, in Moscow. He published his first poem translations and was soon to be a gifted translator from Yiddish and from Slavic and Caucasian languages ​​, which he could also work for pro-regime leaves. First prose of Daniel came in the early 1960s under a pseudonym in circulation and has also been published in the "West ". The main reason why he was sentenced in 1966 together with his colleague Andrei Sinyavsky to five years in a prison camp intensified. After various baffles and imprisonment dismissed for his protests in 1970, he settled in Kaluga, because he had been forbidden to return to Moscow.

Works

• Govorit Moskva ( Moscow talks here )
• Ruki ( the hands)
• Iskuplenije ( atonement )
• Chelovek is MINAPa ( The Man from the MIN -AP)