Venedikt Yerofeyev
Venedikt Yerofeyev | |
|---|---|
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |
| Died | May 11, 1990 (aged 51) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | prose writer, novelist |
| Subject | Satire |
| Literary movement | Postmodernism |
| Notable works | Moscow-Petushki |
| Spouse | Valentina Vasilevna Zimakova, Galina Pavlovna Nosova |
| Children | Venedikt Venediktovich Yerofeyev |
Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev, also Benedict Erofeev or Erofeyev (
Biography
Yerofeyev was born in the
His father was imprisoned during
Between 1958 and 1975, Yerofeyev lived without
Literary legacy
Yerofeyev is best known for his 1969 "
Referred to by David Remnick as "the comic high-water mark of the Brezhnev era",[3] the poem was published for the first time in 1973 in a Russian-language magazine in Jerusalem. It was not published in the Soviet Union until 1989.
Of note is his smaller 1988 work My Little Leniniana (Моя маленькая лениниана, Moya malenkaya Leniniana), which is a collection of quotations from
Yerofeyev also claimed to have written in 1972 a novel Shostakovich about the famous Russian composer
Personal life and death
Venedikt Yerofeyev was married twice. Firstly, to Valentina Vasilevna Zimakova and then Galina Pavlovna Nosova.
In 1966 Yerofeyev's wife, Valentina Zimakova gave birth to a son - Venedikt Venediktovich Yerofeyev.[5] Galina Nosova died three years after Yerofeyev - having thrown herself off the balcony of her 13th floor apartment in Moscow.[5]
In 1985 Yerofeyev was diagnosed with throat cancer. Doctors operated on him, after which he could only speak using an Electrolarynx. A film was made about Moskva-Petushki in the last years of Yerofeyev's life and he can be seen speaking with the help of this apparatus.[6]
Yerofeyev died five years after he was first diagnosed with the disease, on 11 May 1990, at the Russian Oncological Centre in Moscow.[7] He is buried in Kuntsevsky cemetery.[8]
References
- ^ "Писатели-диссиденты: биобиблиографические статьи (начало)" [Dissident writers: bibliographic articles (beginning)]. Новое литературное обозрение [New Literary Review] (in Russian) (66). 2004.
- ^ "Khibiny-Moscow-Petushki. Vevedikt Terofeyev (1938-1990)", a special issue of Live Arctics ("Живая Арктика") No.1, 2005
- Village Voice. 2008-12-02.
- ^ Alexander Bondarev,"И немедленно выпил", Booknik, 24 октября 2013
- ^ a b "ЖИВАЯ АРКТИКА №1 2005г". arctic.org.ru. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
- ^ Pawel Pawlikowski: From Moscow to Pietushki - 1990 on Vimeo (eg. at 7:00)
- ^ "Хибины — Москва — Петушки". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ "Ерофеев Венедикт | Театр на Юго-Западе". teatr-uz.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
External links
- Москва—Петушки, Russian website dedicated to the work of Venedikt Yerofeyev
- Documentary on Venedikt Yerofeyev by Pawel Pawlikowski
- Walpurgis Night, or "The Steps of the Commander"