Hanapi Ebekkuev is a recently emerged name in the literary field. Information about his biography is negligible. Some people even believe that under the name is not one person, but a group of enthusiasts.
Ebekkuev Hanapi Magomedovich. Biography
Here is what is known about the author. Ebekkuev Hanapi Magomedovich was born on November 1, 1956 in the city of Cherkessk in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic and died there in 2010. He discovered a new direction in poetry for Russia - ultra-minimalism. A Caucasian is not an educated poet; he is an amateur who writes awkward but soulful poems in Russian. Rumor has it that his work hit the bookshelves by accident. One of his friends jokingly took his creations to the publishing house.
Scanned pages with verses immediately appeared on the Internet. They were posted by bloggers in LiveJournal. Discussed and searched for the innermost meaning.
Many people like its simple, ingenuous syllable. Ebekkuev Hanapi is the author of 11 collections of poems. The most famous among them:
- “Everything happens in life”;
- "Love";
- "I came to you with a bouquet."
A bit about ultra-minimalism
In this part of the article we will talk about this little-known direction. The vocabulary used in writing poetry is very poor. Typically, these are:
- Verbs;
- words are status categories.
Less commonly used pronouns, adjectives, nouns. They are used only to describe abstractions, and more often to express qualitative or material concepts.
Structure of verses
Ultra-minimalism destroys poetic canons. But this does not happen completely, but only descends to the lowest "kindergarten level." Here the destruction of poetic speech, the breaking of all poetic canons. The verses have a broken rhythm, and if a melodic miraculously appears, then these are most likely cliches and common phrases. Hanapi didn't think too much about how the verse would sound. He is a romantic poet who, in his own way, is trying to make this world a better place.
Ebekkuev Hanapi Magomedovich. Poems
The Russian language is not native to the poet. Some of his poems sound strange. It seems that they are written down from the words of a five year old child. At the same time, Ebekuev Hanapi Magomedovich has many fans. He writes about simple things in life. About love for the motherland, for nature, for her woman, for children.
Hanapi is not good at rhyming; he has little respect for the laws of writing poetry. This author conquered others - he knows how to create images and convey mood.
"One-voiced polyphony"
In the work of Ebekkuev Hanapi Magomedovich you will find short poems that resemble passages from a personal diary: notes, observations, emotions, snatches of thoughts. The emphasis in the collections is placed on the personality of the writing or lyrical hero. It is a little strange that in verses he writes both on behalf of a man and on behalf of a woman. Most often, the gender of a lyrical hero is difficult to determine. You can only cling to his experiences and his inner world.
The lyrical hero in the works is a resident of the Russian Federation. He does not have a specific nationality, but believes that Russia should be indivisible. There is no place for religion in the picture of Ebekuev’s world. If we take all the books of the author, then only one work is talking about the need to build a temple in a city. For the lyrical hero, God is too mysterious and complex entity. He avoids writing about him. The protagonist can be an adherent of any faith or be an atheist.
Patriotic poetry
The lyrical hero in books is a citizen of Russia in the broad sense of the word. The author praises the beauty of Russian girls, advocates for power, believes that those in power know best how to properly govern the country, and advocates the indivisibility of the Russian Federation.
Theme of World War II in books
It can be seen that Hanapi Ebbekueva cares about the memory of the soldiers who rose to defend their homeland from the Nazis. In his poems, he condemns those who forget about terrible events. The author writes about the war mainly in cliches.
Description of nature in verses
Landscapes in verses are expressed through human sensations. It’s even difficult to call it classical descriptions of nature: everything is very primitive, with many stamps. The author does not describe natural beauties or phenomena, he writes about the change of seasons and natural phenomena.
Almost immediately after the poems hit the Internet, a mass of Hanapi imitators appeared. Jokers cling to the scanned sheet from the poet’s book a portrait of another man or woman and write in the same style.
Defenders of poetry Hanapi Ebekkueva say that if such works were written by "Moscow conceptualists", for example Gelman or Prigov, then admirers would perceive creativity as postmodern, primitivism, sarcasm or grotesque.
People who make fun of a Caucasian poet should understand that he does not write in his native language. Of course, if the Russian language is native and you are familiar with poetic art, then you can write good poems, but will they have the same sincerity, naivety, and soul as in the poems of Hanapi Ebekkuev?