Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (Russian Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; born March 15, 1937 at village Ust- Uda on the Angara, Irkutsk Oblast ) is a Russian writer and environmental activist.

Life

From 1954 to 1959 he studied at the Faculty of the University of Irkutsk historical- philological and then worked at various newspapers and youth magazines. In 1961 he published his first story. In 1966 he gave up his journalistic work and settled as a freelance writer. He brought out numerous novels and several collections of short stories.

Rasputin was involved already in the 1970s in the environmental movement to protect his Siberian home, where he also took Marxist classics and resolutions of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the argument. He was honored in 1988 with the of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP ) Global 500 Award donated.

In the 1990s he was involved in communist- nationalist opposition to Yeltsin's reforms ( for example, he signed etc. A word to the people, a perestroikakritisches Manifest and supported the National Salvation Front ).

Work

Valentin Rasputin is one of the most important Russian writers of the 1970s. He is counted among the so-called village literature, since it is very nature-loving author of the fundamental problems in different individual stories of a village.

His novel " Farewell to Matyora ," which depicts the sinking of his native village in the flood of pent-up from Irkutsk waterworks Angara, he became world famous. In his " sketches on the Baikal ," he tells one of the many legends about the origins of the lake.

Since the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin has not only literary, but also politically committed to the rescue of Lake Baikal.

Works (selection)

  • Money for Maria novella in 1967, Berlin 1988
  • The last period, novel, 1970, Berlin 1977
  • Leb and forget not novel in 1974, Berlin in 1977
  • Farewell to Matyora, Roman 1976, Munich 1989
  • The fire, narrative, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-442-09346-5
  • Vasily and Vasilisa, narrative, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-15-008241-2
  • The boy, the river and the great forest, children's book, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-358-02238-2
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