Today we will tell you who Polina Barskova is. Her biography will be discussed in detail below. It is a Russian prose writer and poet. Our heroine was born in Leningrad, in 1976, on February 4. Currently lives in the USA. He is a laureate of several literary prizes, including the name of Andrei Bely. She marked the first book of prose called Living Voices.
Biography
Polina Barskova studied at the Department of Classical Philology at St. Petersburg University. Graduated from this university. Since 1998, she studied in the USA, attended the
University of California
(Berkeley). Her scientific work concerns Russian prose of the thirties (Egunov, Vaginov). He is a teacher of Russian literature at Amherst at Hampshire College.
Rhyme
The main literary form in which Polina Barskova showed herself is poetry. She is a rare example of a prodigy poet. At the same time, having matured, she was not lost in the literary world. Valery Shubinsky notes that the youthful voice of our heroine was distorted by interference in the form of coquetry, deliberate inorganic rudeness or a figurative mishmash. This did not allow the poetess to be heard. At the same time, early, not well-deserved, success did not contribute to exactingness in relation to oneself. At the same time, her voice was strong by nature and, having reached maturity, broke through various extraneous noises. She has a sensual soprano, exciting, but capable of calm.
Debut
Polina Barskova participated in a literary association, led by Vyacheslav Leikin. There, Vsevolod Zelchenko, a senior comrade, experienced significant influence. The first book of our heroine was published in 1991. Then she became a laureate at the All-Union Festival of Young Poets. Later, Polina Barskova was awarded first place in a
literary contest called Teneta, as well as the Moscow Transit Prize. In the early works of our heroine, the influence of some later romantics was felt, in particular the French. Among them, Rimbaud, Lotreamon, Baudelaire.
Rating
Dmitry Kuzmin called her poetry very sensual. She has a romantic warehouse. The works combine gloomy coloring and strong emotional stress. These works are not too similar to the more restrained Petersburg art of recent decades. In some ways one can even see the closeness of the intonations of our heroine with the early works of Evgeny Rein, who is her biological father and Russian poet. It can also be compared with a circle of lesser-known authors who created at the turn of the sixties and seventies of the last century. Among them are Ozhiganov and Mironov. They attempted to create something similar to the French “damned poets” on Russian soil. These authors were skipped in Russia because of the socio-political problems that poetry was directed at then, as well as other forms of art. In 2000, our heroine tried to characterize her work. She noted that in her works everyone sees something different: Art Nouveau, Peter, arrogance, hammered, scandalous, vulgar, sentimentality, tabloid, negligence, shamelessness, emptiness. Judgments were made about the impact on our heroine of the work of Joseph Brodsky. The poetess herself noted that for her she was neither a teacher nor an idol. He is for her a linguistic environment. According to the poetess, it was precisely this perception that Joseph Brodsky wanted to achieve. A similar relationship can be with the Bible, or, in the case of ancient schoolchildren, with the great Homer. Brodsky spoke the language of Russian poetry. In 2000, Danila Davydov noted that our heroine refused authoritarian intonation. By 2006, her position had changed significantly. According to her, the usual framework does not fit the new literature, and the system in which the presence of the poetry giant was a weapon, comfort, excuse, compass, umbrella, was gone. At present, our heroine is working on the work Petersburg in Blockade. Fragments of a future book were published in Russian periodicals. In particular, “New Literary Review”, “The Safe Reserve”.
Bibliography
The first book that Polina Barskova wrote was called Christmas. In 1993, the work “The Squeamish Race” was published. In 1997, Mette Dalsgaard published a paper. In 2000, the book "Euryday and Orphica" was published. In 2001, the Arias appeared. In 2005, our heroine wrote Brazilian Scenes. In 2007, the work “Wandering Musicians” was published. In 2010, the book “Direct Control” appears. In 2011, Ariel's Report is published. Another book written by Polina Barskova is Living Pictures. This work was published in 2014. In this book, the author discusses such a difficult work as forgiveness. It involves responsibility to oneself, and often turns out to be the fault of one who has forgotten about the insults. The author, through the prose given in this work, seeks to study people under a historical microscope and achieve a huge saving approach.
The book "The owner of the garden" was published in 2015.