"Fictional writer" Yevgeny Sazonov: biography and creativity

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Sazonov Evgeniy is a fictional prose writer, writer, writer. This personality in the literary life of the twentieth century appeared thanks to the creative team of the then popular newspaper Literary Life. This was a new and unusual variant of Kozma Prutkov, who was also a fictional writer, but very popular in the nineteenth century. Only a new image was created in the Soviet period.

The appearance of a fictional writer

For the first time excerpts from Yevgeny Sazonov's novels were published by Literaturnaya Gazeta, and then the reader learned about this unusual writer. It happened on January 4th, 1967. The first published excerpts by Yevgeny Sazonov were chapters from his novel Stormy Stream.

For almost ten years, this newspaper published chapters from this novel, as well as other works of his. For example, some details of the biography of a fictional writer, his portrait, memoirs and even excerpts from a notebook.

Biography of an unusual writer EugeneSazonova

Some details of the biography that were published in Literaturnaya Gazeta pointed to Yevgeny Sazonov as a really real and existing person.

It is known that Evgeniy Sazonov was born in the town of Baraniy Rog in 1936. His grandfather had been an auxiliary worker all his life, and his brother, also named Eugene, was a creative person. He painted one picture where he depicted the writer in a field next to a tractor with his unfinished novel.

In 1954, he finished tenth grade perfectly. As it was posted on the pages of the newspaper, at the end of school he had one triple in the certificate, but two medals: he received a gold medal for winning the hurdles, and the second medal was also for sports, but only silver. The fictional writer entered the Literary Institute four times but failed the entrance exams.

The unusual writer has a family. He met his first wife in the park, and already on December 31, 1968, he married her. Eugene was born in this marriage. But this union fell apart very quickly.

Sazonov Yevgeny wrote his first poem at the age of three. For his novel "Stormy Romance" an unusual writer received the Nobel Prize. In his own way, he even translated The Divine Comedy, which in his translation was called The Living Hell. He held a reader's conference with students from the Count of Luxembourg University.

The writer Sazonov even had his own students: Ilya Toporishchin, Vladlen Zamursky and Vadim Ugorelykh.

Real Authors

The first real author who conceived the idea of creating such a "fictional" writer was Mark Grigoryevich Rozovsky, who was known as a playwright and theater director. He is also the founder of the Twelve Chairs Club. Another co-author of such a character in literature was Vitaly Borisovich Reznikov, who was an employee of the editorial office of Literaturnaya Gazeta.

The following writers and poets were part of this Literaturnaya Gazeta team, who came up with this image and its work: Vladimir Lifshits and Vladimir Volin, Vladimir Vladin and Vadim Levin, Vladlen Bakhnov and Nikita Bogoslovsky.

Literary activity of the writer Yevgeny Sazonov

An unusual writer was able to write and publish many works. Among them is the novel Stormy Stream, the real author of which is Mark Rozovsky. The author of the poetic cycle "Mathematisms" is the writer and parodist Vladimir Volin.

Sazonov Evgeny also wrote essays. The real author of the essay "The Wedding of the Century" is Vladimir Vladin. Children's poems were written by Vadim Levin. The Razumina collection belongs to Vladlen Bakhnov, and Parisian Silhouettes belongs to Nikita Bogoslovsky.

In the created image, all real authors wanted to show the negative features that were inherent in the Soviet writer: false pathos, creating similarities of epic works, incorrect and sometimes false description of human character.