Igor Guberman
Igor Mironovich Guberman | |
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Guberman, July 2009 | |
Native name | Игорь Миронович Губерман |
Born | (1936-07-07) July 7, 1936 (age 87) Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR |
Occupation | Poetry, literature |
Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | Moscow State University of Railway Engineering |
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Igor Mironovich Guberman (Russian: И́горь Миро́нович Губерма́н, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ mʲɪˈronəvʲɪtɕ ɡʊbʲɪrˈman] ⓘ, born July 7, 1936, Kharkiv) is a Jewish Russian writer and poet who lives in Israel since 1988.[1] His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains that he called gariki in Russian (singular: garik, which is also the diminutive form of the author's first name, Igor). These short poems (originally Guberman called them "Jewish Dazibao") usually feature an ABAB rhyme scheme, employ various poetic meters, and cover a wide range of subjects including antisemitism, immigrant life, anti-religious sentiment, and the author's complicated relationship with Russia, Israel, and the respective cultures.[2][3][4] Gariki are mostly humorous and often paradoxical, verging on philosophical.
Biography
Igor Guberman was born in Kharkiv on July 7, 1936. After high school, he entered the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering. In 1958, he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. He worked as an electrical engineer for several years and wrote on the side in his spare time. Toward the end of the 1950s, he was introduced to Alexander Ginzburg, who published Syntax, one of the first samizdat periodicals, as well as to other underground philosophers, writers, and artists. For some time he worked as a secretary to the great Russian poet David Samoylov, and also as a ghostwriter for hire.
At first, Guberman wrote popular science books (such as "Third Triumvirate"), but he gradually became more and more active as a dissident poet. Guberman published his underground work under the pseudonyms I. Mironov and Abram Khayyam, connecting the names of the famous Persian poet Omar Khayyám and the Jewish first name Abram.
In 1979, Guberman was arrested and sentenced based on fabricated charges to five years in the Soviet labor colonies.[5] He based his book, Walks Around the Barracks (written in 1980, published in 1988), on the diaries he kept during this time.
In 1984, Guberman returned from Siberia.[6] For a long time, he could get neither a job nor a residence permit (Propiska) to live in Moscow. In 1987, he emigrated from the USSR to Israel, and since 1988 he has been living in Jerusalem. He visits Russia quite frequently to attend poetry readings. Books by Guberman have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Russia and in countries with Russian immigrant communities, with whom they are always popular.
Quatrains
Examples of Guberman's quatrains:
Возглавляя партии и классы, | Those fervid leaders of parties and classes |
Мне жаль небосвод этот синий, | I’m sorry for the stars above that shine, |
Не прыгай с веком наравне, | Don't race to keep up with the century, |
References
- ^ Igor Guberman by Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ "Laugh at your despair." About I. Huberman’s “gariks” and the humorous stylization of melancholy (in Russian) by Laura Salmon, Firenze University Press, 2014
- ^ Poetry and prose by Guberman in lib.ru
- ^ Guberman, Igor Mironovich, an entry in persona.rin.ru
- ^ Редакция. "Губерман Игорь". Электронная еврейская энциклопедия ОРТ (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ Quarterly progress report, July-September 1982 (Report). Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). 1982-01-01. doi:10.2172/5545420.
- ^ Translated by user Ivonna Nowicka
External links
- Brief biography of Igor Guberman (English)
- Selected gariki in English (translated by Evgeniy Lovtskiy)
- Selected gariki in English (translated by Boris Meshcheryakov)
- Igor Guberman. Poems (in Russian)
- Igor Guberman on site Jerusalem Anthology (in Russian)
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