Oleg Haslavsky

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Oleg Haslavsky
Haslavsky in 2012
Haslavsky in 2012
BornOleg Lvovich Haslavsky
(1948-07-08)8 July 1948
Taganrog, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died19 December 2021(2021-12-19) (aged 73)
Taganrog, Russia
OccupationPoet, translator
NationalityRussian

Oleg Haslavsky Олег Львович Хаславский (8 July 1948 – 19 December 2021) was a Russian poet and translator.

Biography[]

Haslavsky was born on 8 July 1948 in Taganrog, Soviet Union.[1] Until the age of seven, he lived with his parents in Lviv. During his school years he studied painting in Taganrog's Art Studio under the supervision of Valentina Russo.[1]

In 1964, after graduating from the secondary school nr. 10, he entered the French-German department of the faculty of foreign languages of the Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute (TGPI; now: Taganrog State Pedagogical University, TGPU).[1] During his university studies, his views and interests (particularly regarding French poetry) were greatly appreciated by the docent Yury Felichkin who was teaching French in the pedagogical institute at the time. After Felichkin left the TGPI, Haslavsky was expelled from Taganrog's Pedagogical Institute. In 1972 he graduated from the faculty of foreign languages of Kolomna's Pedagogical Institute.[1]

From 1974 until 1986, Haslavsky worked as a clinical psychologist in Taganrog's psychiatric clinic. From 1980 until 1982, he worked in the R&D Institute of the Taganrog State Radio-technical Institute (OKB "RITM"). In 1986, he became a project director in the international research centre "Delta-Inform". From 1990 until 1992, he lived in Bulgaria for research purposes. From 1999 until 2003, he lived in Israel.[2]

Haslavsky spoke and translated from French, English, Bulgarian, Polish, and Ukrainian. He also had a good knowledge of German and Italian. He translated various poems of François Villon, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Bolesław Leśmian, Taras Shevchenko, poetry and prose of Tadeusz Borowski, as well as Edmond Rostand's comedy "Cyrano de Bergerac". In 2002 he translated Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".[3][4]

He never sought publication of his poetry. The first representative publication took place only in 2008 in the Moscow Journal «Corostel. Provincial letters».[5]

Haslavsky lived and worked in Taganrog. He died there on 19 December 2021, at the age of 73.[6]

Books of Oleg Haslavsky[]

  • Олег Хаславский. Избранное. — Таганрог: Антон, 2009. — 196 с. — ISBN 978-5-88040-065-2.
  • Олег Хаславский. Трилистник таганрогский. — Измаил: Чеширский Кот, 2010. — 32 с.
  • Олег Хаславский. На пышном берегу. — Красный Сулин: Сулинполиграфсервис, 2014. — 248 с.

Citations[]

  • «A poet is a surreal entity who attempts at achieving indescribable results with means unknown to himself»[3] — Oleg Haslavsky, 2009.
  • «Living in a multi-language environment (not taking into account variations of one’s own native language) denunciates consciousness to literary existence, to a literary title, even when no single line has been written. Oleg Haslavsky is a literature figure with the initial advantage, I would even say a littérateur by default. A writing litterateur. I consciously use this definition, ‘littérateur’, though essentially one would need to talk about Haslavsky as a poet, a prose-writer, a translator (a fortiori since Oleg often works with literature pieces previously translated by very big names), and perhaps also as personality, and all of those may be referred to separately by using superlatives. But I say ‘littérateur’ referring to such an exact realisation, nowadays being so rare, of the means of consciousness existence in the language. And I would emphasize it: in the language»[7] — Igor Burenin, 1989.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Ильич С. Олег Хаславский: «Всё, что я пишу — это о Таганроге…» // Новая таганрогская газета. — 2012. — 3 ноября. — С. 4.
  2. ^ Вовк Е. Олег Хаславский — художник и поэт // Таганрогская правда. — 2012. — 7 дек.
  3. ^ a b Олег Хаславский. Избранное. — Таганрог: Антон, 2009. — 196 с. — ISBN 978-5-88040-065-2.
  4. ^ Борисов К. Двойной дебют // Таганрогская правда. — 2009. — 14 июля.
  5. ^ Хаславский О. Стихи // Коростель. Письма из провинции. — 2008. — № 1.
  6. ^ "Умер поэт Олег Львович Хаславский". 123ru.net. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  7. ^ Буренин И. Олег Хаславский // Комсомолец. — 1989. — 18 ноября.

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