Anikst biography

He is the author of works in the field of the theory and history of Western European literature, theater and aesthetics, books about W. Shakespeare and I. Alexander Abramovich was born in the year in Zurich parents lived in emigration. In the year, the Aniksta family returned to Russia. His father, who took the post of deputy. In the year, Anikst graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, in M ​​defended the candidate dissertation on the work of John Milton.

In the same year, he had a son Mikhail, who later became one of the recognized designers, masters of book graphics. With the outbreak of war, Alexander Abramovich joined the Moscow militia and was on the fronts for 4 years. It somehow happened that every significant experience wanted to capture that it became known to others. The desire is very deep. I think that it is based on the desire to overcome death that threatens me every day, as a person who is at the front, ”recalled the anxst.

It is not vanity, not self -interest, but the deepest instinct of self -preservation. I came to the conclusion that it is not necessary for all these facts and customs of a different framework than my impression about them. Therefore, the book will become a collection of novels, essays, sketches. They will combine my character, my interests, inclinations, sympathy and antipathy.

Now it remains only to fulfill the plan. But I will write, no matter what. ” Returning from the front, for up to the year he taught at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages. Then Alexander Abramovich took up literary criticism, wrote the “History of English Literature”, which has long served as the main manual for this discipline for students of the whole country. The central place in his research was taken by the Shakespearean theme.

Having become the most prominent domestic Shakespeared after the release of his works and the authoritative commented publication of the full works of William Shakespeare in 8 volumes in collaboration with Alexander Smirnov, Aniknik realized the need to combine the efforts of Shakespearetics in our country. Alexander Abramovich began to conduct Shakespearean readings, in which large domestic Shakespearers and scientific youth took part, as a result of readings, he began to release collections of scientific articles “Shakespearean readings”, speaking the chief editor of this publication.

The Shakespearean Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences continues to honor Aniksta as its founder. With his example, he established a characteristic feature of the Russian Shakespearet - its breadth, the identification of the Shakespearean picture of the world, the mandatory presentation of Shakespeare in the context of the culture of his era, the absence of borders between the literary, theater, cultural study of the heritage of the great playwright and his era.

Alexander Anikst died on December 24 in Peredelkino. He writes simply. The clarity of the style that comes from clarity of thought makes his works the property of readers of various layers and generations, ”the artist expressed such an opinion about him. In the Russian State Library for the Blind, you can find the following publications with comments or edited by Alexander Aniksta: - Shzeskpir V.

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