Simon Chikovani
Nikolai Zabolotsky
Simon Ivanes dze Chikovani (
Futurist
movement and ended up as a Soviet establishment figure.
Early life and career
Born near the town
Mtkvari"], 1925; მხოლოდ ლექსები ["Only Poems"], 1930) that earned him a reputation of one of the most original Georgian poets of the 20th century. In the words of modern British scholar Donald Rayfield, "most are energetic and provocative Whitmanesque heckling and satirising of the older generation of poets: Chikovani sported Mayakovsky’s mantle."[1] Since 1924, he edited the notorious Futurist journal H2SO4 and directed his attacks against his former associates from the Blue Horns group, chiefly Titsian Tabidze and Paolo Iashvili
.
Later years and turn to politics
From 1930 onward, he distanced himself from his innovative Futurism and brought his work more in line with ideologically-sanctioned patriotic lyrics and love-poetry, suppressing all reference to his versatile early work, especially during the 1937 Great Purge, in which his brother was shot. He went on to serve as a secretary of the Georgian Union of Writers from 1930 to 1932, its president from 1944 to 1951, and finally as deputy of the Supreme Soviet from 1950 to 1954.[1]
There are streets named after Simon Chikovani in Tbilisi and Kutaisi.
See also
References
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