Vecheslav Kazakevich: biography and creative activity

Vecheslav Kazakevich is a Russian writer, poet. In the past, he was loved for the originality of the style, which was both wise and naive, painted with lyricism and humor. He was for many a close companion.

The collection "Heart-ship" printed selected works from early editions, as well as teenage verses from the first book, which was never published.

Kazakevich's style of prose aroused various reviews among critics - he was placed on a par with George Darrell, Dovlatov.

Vecheslav Kazakevich. Biography

V.S. Kazakevich is a Russian writer. He was born in 1951 in Belinichi, Mogilev region. (Belarus). He graduated from the Higher Military-Political School in Leningrad, joined the army. From 1974 to 1979 Studied at the philology department of Moscow State University, graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature. He worked on several works: in the museum in Melikhov, in the scientific research institute, he also worked in the archive.

Since 1993 lives in Japan. He worked at the university, which specializes in foreign languages, as well as visiting professor of the higher educational institution of Toyama.

Vecheslav Kazakevich, poet and writer

He started writing poems in school, and then his early publications appeared in the newspapers of Belarus. Further Vecheslav Kazakevich was published in the journals and newspapers of Leningrad. The first edition in Moscow - in the journal "Youth" in 1980. He wrote four books of poetry: "Who will call me brother?" (In 1987, with drawings by Garif Basyrov), "Lunat" (1998, barely reached readers due to unforeseen circumstances), "Holiday in the Province" (1985 writing; For which the author received the Gorky Prize), "Crawl, snail!" (2004, the first book of Russian poetry that was created in Japan) and the prose "Hunt for May Beetles". Poems Vecheslav Kazakevich released in Russia. In 2004, the book "Glorification of the Sunset" was published in Japanese, the newspapers of Japan actively wrote reviews on it. Since 1989, Kazakevich was admitted to the Writers' Union. The collection "Heart-ship" is created from selected poems from other publications, and also includes early verses from unpublished works.

Books of his poems. Publications in publications

Vecheslav Kazakevich wrote the "Holiday in the Province", these poems were published in the Young Guard in 1985, "Who will call me brother?" (Published in Sovremennik), "Crawl, snail!" (In Futurum).

The work "The life and adventures of a fugitive" was published in selected poems in the almanac "Rubezh", in the same place a book of poems "Heart-ship" was published.

"Life and adventures of a fugitive" is not just ordinary literature and poetic works, it is a collection that is based on the real life of the writer himself - from the boy from Belinichi native Mogilev region to the respected professor of the Japanese university Toyama. He describes the nature and anxiety of his mother, immediately he calms her down. Further he speaks about Japan and its government.

Sensual attachment to poetry was a good answer to the question, which he called his second collection: "Who will call me brother?" - which was written in 1987. Thanks to this collection, many remembered the name of the poet. As in the work "Surname", in which the author recalls Emmanuel Kazakevich (author of the popular books "Star" and "Blue Notebook"), he told ironically which goes into sarcasm, told all interested readers about his pedigree.

Prose of Vecheslav Kazakevich

As already mentioned, critics appreciated the prose of this author. The story "Hunting for May Beetles" is an ironic and woeful literary work with exact details. The book tells that in the 70s they called roads, sciences, murders, power, land, laws. This book is about the end of life in the village and how close people unquestioningly and foolishly ruined themselves and their land.