Boris Zaytsev (writer)
Boris Zaytsev | |
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| Born | 10 February 1881 Oryol, Russia |
| Died | 22 January 1972 (aged 90) Paris, France |
Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (
Biography
Zaytsev was born in Oryol. He attended the Imperial Technical Institute in Moscow, the Institute of Mines in Saint Petersburg, and the Law School at the University of Moscow, without graduating from any of them. He first began publishing his fictional works in 1901, and several of his stories were published in the journal The New Direction ran by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. His first collection of stories was published in 1906. His first novel, A Distant Journey, appeared in 1912.[1]
He was chairman of the Moscow Union of Writers from 1921 to 1922. In 1922 he was allowed to move to Paris for health reasons, where he became one of the leading
Art historian Francis Haskell was the son of his sister Vera.
English translations
- A Distant Journey,(novel), 1912.
- Anna, (novel), translated by Natalie Duddington, Henry Holt and Co, NY, 1937.
- Avdotya-Death, The Heart of Abraham, and A Conversation with Zinaida, (short stories), from A Russian Cultural Revival, University of Tennessee Press, 1981. ISBN 0-87049-296-9
Further reading
- Liubomudrov, A.M. (2003). Dukhovnyi Realizm v Literature Russkogo Zarubezh'ia: B.K. Zaitsev, I.S. Shmelev [Spiritual realism in Russian literature abroad: B.K. Zaitsev, I.S. Shmelev] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin. ISBN 5-86007-377-1.
- Cheang, Sarah Ossipow (2011-04-05). Etude sur le thème de l'errance dans l'oeuvre de Boris Zaitsev. ISBN 978-5860073777.
References
- ^ ISBN 0-87049-296-9.
External links
- Works by Boris Zaytsev at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
