Kazakov, Yury Pavlovich

Kazakov, Yury Pavlovich

▪ Russian author
born Aug. 8, 1927, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.
died Nov. 29, 1982

      Soviet short-story writer who worked in the classic Russian lyrical style of Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin.

      Kazakov was initially a jazz musician, but he began to publish short stories in 1952. He graduated from the Gorky Institute of World Literature in 1958 and traveled extensively in the northern regions of the Soviet Union during the 1950s and '60s. Kazakov's early short stories marked a notable departure from the tenets of Socialist Realism in their rejection of heroic types and the morally didactic presentation of character. The stories in such collections as Man'ka (1958), Na polustanke (1959; “At the Station”), Po doroge (1961; “Along the Road”), and Goluboe i zelyonoe (1963; “The Blue and the Green”) focus on the subtle and complex emotional reactions of rural characters during moments of inspiration, communion, betrayal, or loss. Kazakov treats questions of conscience and emphasizes the importance of the individual's harmonious coexistence with nature.

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