Yury Trifonov

Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov (Russian Юрий Валентинович Трифонов, scientific transliteration Yuri Trifonov, born August 28, 1925 in Moscow, † March 28, 1981 ) was a Soviet writer of Russian language and a leading representative of the so-called Soviet " urban prose ", a movement of the 1970s, inspired by the psychologically complex works of Anton Chekhov and his American followers in the 20th century. As one reviewer noted: "In Trifonov 's prose can study the entire Soviet culture."

Trifonov grew up in the luxury district of the Moscow Arbat and spent his entire life in Moscow. After his father Valentin Trifonov 1937 a victim of the Stalinist purges was, his family moved from the famous "House on the Embankment " ( opposite the Kremlin ) in a run-down urban apartment building.

After serving as an Air Force auxiliary in Moscow 1941, he was evacuated to Tashkent, where he passed the Abitur. 1942-1945 he worked as a mechanic, dispatcher, and editor of the newspaper operating a Moscow aircraft equipment factory.

Trifonov studied in 1944 as a remote student and from 1945 to 1949 directly at the Gorki Institute of Literature at Konstantin Fedin, where he transferred Heine and Johannes R. Becher. The large dimension (1947 ) was his first publication. His first novel, The Student (1950 ), which was staged in 1952 at the Yermolova Theatre earned him the Stalin Prize III. Class. Trifonov following papers dealt with issues such as the moral ambiguity of the Soviet intelligentsia and the tragic fate of the Cossacks during the Russian Civil War.

As Trifonov best works are his widely read "Moscow novels ": The replacement ( Обмен, 1969), mid-term ( Предварительные итоги, 1970), The Long Goodbye ( Долгое прощание, 1971), Another Life ( 1975), and (most importantly) the House on the Embankment ( Дом на набережной, 1976). The novel time and place ( Время и место, 1981), and The fallen house, a collection of 7 travelogues were published posthumously. These references are critics to the artistic form and content, most sophisticated, and aesthetically most perfect works of Soviet literature.

The writer Olga Trifonova (* 1938) is Trifonov widow.

Works

• Selected Works 1-4 Berlin: nation and the world, 1983
• Impatience, Berlin: nation and world, 1975 The time of impatience, DTV, 1983, ISBN 3423014067