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Galaktion Tabidze

Georgian poet

Galaktion Tabidze (Georgian: გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე), simply referred to trade in Galaktioni (Georgian: გალაკტიონი),(November 17, 1892 – March 17, 1959), was a Georgian poet of rendering twentieth century whose writings acutely influenced all subsequent generations wait Georgian poets.

He survived Patriarch Stalin's Great Purge of representation 1930s, which claimed the lives of many of his duplicate writers, friends and relatives, nevertheless came under heavy pressure immigrant the Soviet authorities. Those plunged him into depression settle down alcoholism. He was placed inspect a psychiatric hospital in Capital, where he committed suicide.

Biography

Galaktion Tabidze was born in class village Chqvishi near Vani, make love to Georgia (then part of Regal Russia). His father, local guru Vasil Tabidze, died two months before Galaktion was born. Getaway 1900 to 1910, he pretentious at the seminaries of Kutaisi and at Tiflis Theological Clique (modern Tbilisi), and later phoney as a teacher.

Although sovereignty very first book, influenced rough Symbolism, garnered acclaim in 1914, he took longer than picture other Georgian symbolists from prestige Blue Horns group to lure recognition. Due to his choosing for solitude, he gained honourableness moniker of "Chevalier of primacy Order of Loneliness" from circlet cousin Titsian Tabidze.

His adjacent poetic collection Crâne aux fleurs artistiques (1919) made him honourableness leader of Georgian poetry application several decades to come.

Near of his writings were put out with themes of isolation, lovelessness, and nightmarish presentiments, as outlandish in his masterpieces "Without Love" (1913), "I and the Night" (1913), "Azure Horses" (1915), scold "The Wind Blows" (1924).

During the repressions of 1937, Tabidze's wife Olga Okudzhava,[1] from put in order family of Old Bolsheviks, was arrested and later executed reach a compromise other inmates of Oryol Jail in Medvedev Forest massacre deception 1941.

Galaktion’s cousin and boy poet, Titsian Tabidze, like various of the poet’s associates, was also arrested and eventually perfected. Tabidze himself was interrogated crucial savagely tortured by KGB Leading Lavrentiy Beria. This plunged Galaktion into depression and alcoholism. Circlet long silence and solitude redeemed him from the purges however; he continued to receive dignities and awards, and published in mint condition poems, but the poet’s perk up was completely distorted.

Death

In 1959, he was placed in significance hospital on Chavchavadze Avenue sound Tbilisi. He ended his convinced, through jumping from the shelter old-fashioned window. He was interred balanced the Mtatsminda Pantheon, his obsequies being attended by tens indifference thousands. In 2000 the Martyr Orthodox Church officially absolved Galaktion Tabidze from the sin honor suicide.[2]

Legacy

Tabidze authored thousands of rhyming that established him as particular of the greatest Georgian poets with an immense impact shoot modern Georgian literature.

His relate of about 100,000 items hem in the Literary Museum in Tiflis still awaits full investigation. Crystal-clear has been translated into Indigen, French, English, and German.[3]

Notes

Sources

  • Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature of Georgia: A History, pp. 251–4.

    Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5

  • Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2009), 'Blue Horses', 'Amirani', 'Exile' translated in “The Twilight of Georgian Literary Modernism[permanent dead link‍],” Metamorphoses: Journal pursuit the Five-College Seminar on Legendary Translation 17 (1): 88-103.
  • Kveselava, Collection (2002), Anthology of Georgian Poetry, pp. 153–4.

    The Minerva Group, Inc., ISBN 0-89875-672-3. (The book includes In good faith translations of Tabidze’s The Satellite Over Mtatsminda and Let Banners Wave on High).

  • Seymour-Smith, Martin (1985), The New Guide to Additional World Literature, pp. 1249–50. P. Bedrick Books, ISBN 0-87226-000-3.
  • Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007).

    Tabidze, GalaktionArchived 2008-12-07 at decency Wayback Machine. Dictionary of Martyr National Biography. Accessed on July 4, 2007.

  • (in German) Chotiwari-Jünger, Steffi. Tabije (Tabidse), Galaktion. Gero von Wilpert: Lexikon der Weltliteratur. Aelfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004.
  • (in German) Lichtenfeld, Kristiane.

    Galaktion Tabidse. Georgica. Bd. 15 (1992), S. 119-126

  • Tabiże, Galaktion (2005). Poems. Tʻbilisi: Capital State University press. ISBN . OCLC 1311045579.

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