Hero’s Poems: Alexandr Revich

Abstract

Alexander M. Revich (1921–2012) was a poet, translator, professor at the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute as well as a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature (in 1998, for the translation of “Les Tragiques” by Theodore Agrippa d’Abigne). He also was a veteran of the World War II, participant in the Battle of Stalingrad. He had 20 military awards, including two medals of the Great Patriotic War of I and II degree, the medal “For the Defense of Stalingrad” and others. Author of such books as “Trace of Fire: Verses, Poems” (1970), “Bowl: Verses. Poems. Translations” (1999), “Granted Days: Verses, Poems, Translations” (2004), “From the Book of Life: Poems, Notes by a Poet” (2007), “Late Farewell: Lyrics, Poems, Notes” (2010), “Before the Light: On the War. About Moscow” (2013), “And Angels Fly in the Sky. Military Verses and Poems” (2013). All of Revich’s poems were written solely on the basis of his own life experience, and this feature determined the specifi cation of the article, in which the literary analysis is inseparable from the story about author’s personality.