Vecheslav Kazakevich - Russian writer, poet. In the past, he was loved for the originality of the style, which was both wise and naive, painted with lyricism and humor. He was for many a close interlocutor.
The Heart-Ship collection contains selected works from earlier editions, as well as teenage verses from the first book, which was never published.
The style of Kazakevich's prose caused various reviews among critics - he was put on a par with J. Darrell, Dovlatov.
Vecheslav Kazakevich. Biography
V.S. Kazakevich is a Russian writer. Born in 1951 in Belinichi, Mogilev region. (Belarus). He graduated from the Higher Military-Political School in Leningrad, joined the army. From 1974 to 1979 studied at the philological department of Moscow State University, graduated from the department of Russian language and literature. He worked at several works: at the museum in Melikhov, at the research institute, also worked in the archive.
Since 1993 lives in Japan. He worked at a university that specializes in foreign languages, as well as a visiting professor at the Toyama Higher Education Institution.
Vecheslav Kazakevich, poet and writer
He began to create poetry at school, at the same time his early publications in the newspapers of Belarus came out. Further, Vecheslav Kazakevich was published in the magazines and newspapers of Leningrad. The first edition in Moscow was in the magazine "Youth" in 1980. Wrote 4 books of poetry: “Who will call me brother?” (in 1987, with drawings by Garif Basyrov), “Lunat” (1998, barely reached the readers due to unforeseen circumstances), “Holiday in the province” (1985, for which the author received the Gorky Prize), “Crawl snail! ” (2004; the first book of Russian poetry, which was created in Japan) and prose "Hunting for May Beetles." Poems Vecheslav Kazakevich released in Russia. In 2004, the book “Glorification of the Sunset” was published in Japanese; Japanese newspapers actively wrote reviews on it. Since 1989, Kazakevich was admitted to the Writers Union. The collection “Heart-ship” was created from selected poems from other publications, as well as early verses from unpublished works.
Books of his poems. Publications in editions
Vecheslav Kazakevich wrote “Holiday in the Province”, these poems were published in the “Young Guard” in 1985, “Who will call me brother?” (published in Sovremennik), Crawl, snail! (in Futurum).
The work “Life and Adventures of a Runaway” was published in selected poems in the anthology “Frontier”, and a book of poems “Heart-Ship” was published there.
“The life and adventures of a fugitive” is not just ordinary literature and poetic works, it is a collection that is based on the real life of the writer himself - from a boy from Belinichi, his native Mogilev region, to a distinguished professor at Toyama University of Japan. He describes the nature and anxious mood of mom, and right there he reassures her. He then speaks of Japan and its government.
Sensual affection for poetry was a good answer to the question that he called his second collection: "Who will call me brother?" - which was written in 1987. Thanks to this collection, many remembered the name of the poet. As in the work “Last Name”, in which the author recalls Emanuel Kazakevich (author of the popular books “The Star” and “Blue Notebook”), with an irony that turns into sarcasm, he told all interested readers about his genealogy.
The prose of Vecheslav Kazakevich
As already mentioned, critics appreciated the prose of this author. The story "Hunting for May Beetles" is an ironic and woeful literary work with exact details. The book tells about what was called roads, sciences, murders, power, land, laws in the 70s. This is a book about the end of life in the village and how close people unquestioningly and foolishly destroyed themselves and their land.