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Lev Loseff[1] (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad.[2] He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University.[2]
Literary career
[edit]Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976.[3] He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later.[1] In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.
Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH.[4]
Works
[edit]- Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life
- Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
- Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail)
- On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature
- Poetika Brodskogo
- Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
- A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr)
- Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Gonzalez, Katie (May 12, 2009). "Russian department chair dies at 71". The Dartmouth. Archived from the original on June 28, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Lev Vladimirovich Loseff" (in Russian). Ozon.ru. Archived from the original on November 22, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
- ↑ Mydans, Seth (September 6, 1991). "Soviet Turmoil; Exiled Russian Writers, Free to Return, Find Visiting Is Enough". The New York Times.
- ↑ "В США скончался писатель и литературовед Лев Лосев".
External links
[edit]- https://www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/losev0.html
- http://www.rvb.ru/np/publication/02comm/10/07losev.htm
- Photographs of Loseff
- Book review of Loseff's biography of Joseph Brodsky.
- Interview with Loseff in Ogonyok magazine.
- https://levloseff.blogspot.com/
- "Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life by Lev Loseff" in Quarterly Conversation
- 1937 births
- 2009 deaths
- American literary critics
- American male poets
- Jewish American poets
- Dartmouth College faculty
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Jewish Russian writers
- Russian literary critics
- Saint Petersburg State University alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- Russian male poets
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- Saint Peter's School (Saint Petersburg) alumni