Anatoly Marienhof

Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof (Russian Анатолий Борисович Мариенгоф; born 24 Junijul / July 6 1897greg in Nizhny Novgorod, .. † 24 June 1962, Leningrad) was a Russian writer.

Life

He came from a noble family in Courland.

Marienhof is a representative of Imagism. His work had fallen into oblivion for a long time. Only since the 1980s and 1990s, most of his novels and poems were reissued.

Marienhof attended high school in Penza. He came to Moscow in 1918, where he met Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin the young poet. The two poets became close friends. They lived together from 1918 to 1922. After Marienhof, however, had begun to write his novel without falsehood, which reveals many details of Esenin's life, in 1924 broke off the relationship with Marienhof.

Works

• Conspiracy of Fools (1922 )
• Novel without falsehood: Memories (1927 ); Nation and world, Berlin, 1st Edition 1984
• Cynics (1927 )
• The shaved man (1928 )
• Yekaterina
• Notes of a forty year old man. From the Russian by Olga Martynova. In: Culture Crash 10/2004