Gennady Gor

Gennadi Samoilowitsch Gor (Russian Геннадий Самойлович Гор; * 15 Januarjul / January 28 1907greg in Verkhneudinsk, Siberia. . † January 6, 1981 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer and science fiction author of the Soviet Union.

Biography

Gennady Gor, Son of an exiled to Siberia Jewish family, in 1923 went to Petrograd and studied history and philology there. Here he also took with representatives of the avant-garde literature of the time to contact, including Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedenski, the heads of the avant-garde group OBERIU. As early as 1925 he began to publish, in addition to popular scientific texts about the life and culture of northern Siberian tribes also first experimental contemporary literature (first short story collection: Paintings, 1933). From 1961 he also wrote science fiction and published in this area numerous novels, short stories and novellas. In the GDR, some stories ( which appeared in anthologies ) and two novels have been translated. 2007 published his poems from the blockade time and some fantastic stories in parallel, translated and edited by Peter Urban.

Works (selection)

• The electronic Melmoth, 1967 ( shortened as Cape booklet also included in the anthologies index J -81 works for Mr. Faust, 1971, and the electronic happiness. Fantastic tales from the Soviet Union, ed Reinhard Fischer, The New Berlin, Berlin (GDR) in 1982 and passim )
• Konstantin Pankow - humans and plants, 1976
• The statue, 1978 (1985 also at Heyne, with an afterword by Michael Nagula )
• The ear. Great stories from the old Leningrad, 2007. ISBN 3-932109-51-1
• Blockade. Poems. Russian - German, 2007 ISBN 3-902113-52-9.