B. Slutsky is a Russian poet. The writer's creative fate was such that, having published the first rhymes before the war in the spring of 1941, he was silent for more than 10 years (the poet admitted that during the war he created one poem - “Cologne Pit”). The next work - “Monument” - was published by the writer in the summer of 1953.
The war shared these two dates: B. Slutsky was in the war for 4 years. She found the writer in the Smolensk region. The poet ended the war in Austria and Yugoslavia, was shell-shocked and wounded because he tried to serve in the infantry units.
Slutsky expanded the possession of the verse, he managed to win large areas for poetry from prose. Life prose prompted the thematic circle to which the poet resorts, and also indicated to him the choice of heroes - soldiers, communal neighbors, etc.
Boris Slutsky. Biography
B. Slutsky - poet and writer, was born on May 7 in 1919 in Slavyansk. Parents: father is an employee, mother is a music teacher. The writer spent his childhood and youth in Kharkov, where he was bored and difficult. The family was middle class. Parents wanted all their children to receive a musical education. During the school years, Boris made friends with Kulchitsky, who showed great promise in poetry, but died at the front. Boris Slutsky remembered him all his life, and it meant a lot in his work.
It was easy for Boris to study at school: at the age of 6 he read the entire city library, attended classes at the literary studio of the Palace of Pioneers. Before the war, Boris Slutsky was a member of the community of young people, whose participants were Kulchitsky, Glazkov, Samoilov.
Study and life in wartime
Due to the desire of his father, Boris Slutsky went to study at the Faculty of Law. But he himself wanted to become a poet, so he entered the Institute of Literature. He finished it in 1941. In the same year, Boris Slutsky released his first poems. The biography further says that in the war he was a political worker, an instructor in the political department. He left the army with the rank of major in 1946.
He fought on the western front, southwest, on the Ukrainian front and in Belarus, Yugoslavia, Romania. In the war he was injured and shell-shocked. In the war years, he almost did not write because of hostilities. After Victory Day, Slutsky created prose notes on the last years of the war and on the months after. In the post-war period, Slutsky was hospitalized: he often has a headache, he suffers two craniotomy. He is fired from the army as an invalid.
In 1948, the writer again began to compose poems that brought him back to life. At this time, he was not at home - he rented rooms and composed radio compositions for young men and children. At the same time, he wrote the first thirty verses that brought him fame. Even before they were published, these verses were known in the circles of literary figures. It was not possible then to publish these verses.
Creativity and literary activity
The poet Boris Slutsky in 1957 joined the writers' union. The first poetry collection was called “Memory”. From 1957 to 1973 several books were published, collections of Today and Yesterday, Vremya, Work, and others. For the first time, Boris Slutsky spoke in public in 1960 in the Kharkov lecture hall. It is interesting that he was shot in the film by Marlene Khutsiev in an episode about the museum in which he acted as a poet. The writer's legacy was released only after 1987.
Already the first published works of Slutsky proved that the writer is a person who suffered a lot and has a huge life experience. He had a mature outlook on things, with defined antipathies and sympathies. The writer described not only his generations - he depicted the trials through which people went through.
Boris Slutsky is ambiguously perceived in the circles of literary figures. Many of his contemporaries condemn him for speaking out against B. Pasternak in 1958, in which Pasternak was expelled from the allied ranks. Relatives of the poet think that he was worried about this action and remembered it until the end of his life.
Problems of poems Slutsky
He focused on the problems of the twentieth century, his tragedy and hope, the drama of his comrades who survived the revolution and war, the difficult totalitarian regime, and the suppression of the opinion of the people.
Slutsky expanded the poetic framework. Prose had an impact on all poetic elements: language, intonation, system of images. In a bold and broad manner, Slutsky used the jargon of soldiers in the war, which entered the conversation as clericalism. Rhythmic interruptions, omissions, repetitions - all this the writer has sensitively caught. His poems are angular, but this is only a desire to destroy the smoothness of literature.
The family and death of the poet
Slutsky found his family late. His wife Tatyana Dashkovskaya died of cancer in 1977. Creativity returned to the life of the poet. Slutsky, hoping to overcome depression, devoted himself entirely to poetry. For 3 months, the poet wrote 80 poems. After he did not write anything.
Boris Slutsky moves to Tula to his brother, lives with his family, and dies there. This happened on February 23, 1986. Boris Slutsky, whose monument was erected in Moscow at Pyatnitsky Cemetery, is a significant person in the world of literature.