Irina Ratushinskai︠a︡ (1954–2017)
Autore di Grey is the Colour of Hope
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Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine on March 4, 1954. She received a bachelor's degree and master's degree in physics at Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University. She taught for several years at a primary school, where she tussled with the administration over its mostra altro discrimination against Jewish students and was forced out. In April 1983, she was sentenced to seven years of forced labor because the government viewed her poetry as anti-Soviet propaganda. At the work camp, she made gloves for Soviet workmen and secretly wrote poetry that was smuggled out of the camp to her husband. She was released in October 1986 on the eve of the Ronald Reagan- Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Her camp experience resulted in a memoir entitled Grey Is the Colour of Hope and more than 250 poems that were published in collection like Beyond the Limit. She died from cancer on July 5, 2017 at the age of 63. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Irina Ratushinskai︠a︡
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Ratushinskai︠a︡, Irina
- Altri nomi
- Ratushinskaya, Irina Georgiyevna
- Data di nascita
- 1954-03-04
- Data di morte
- 2017-07-05
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Russia
- Luogo di nascita
- Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union
- Luogo di morte
- Moscow, Russia
- Luogo di residenza
- USA
London, England, UK
Moscow, Russia - Istruzione
- Odessa University (MA|Physics)
- Attività lavorative
- poet
essayist
memoirist
teacher (primary school) - Organizzazioni
- Northwestern University (poet in residence|1987-1989)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 504
- Popolarità
- #49,151
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 40
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 3
Quotes:
On aging:
“You know what your problem is, old fellow? I read about it once in an American journal – it’s called a ‘mid-life crisis.’ God knows what that translates to in Russian, but the idea’s a sound one. Something happens to you at that age. The more talented you are, the worse it will be. Ailments of all sorts, depression, a feeling that everything’s in the past, and there’s nothing to look forward to.”
“The old man would lie on his bunk above the stove, while the wind howled outside and a cold new moon drew in its belly. There were times when Nikolin thought of this kind of life as a sound way of existence, and envisaged it for himself. Not now, of course, but at some time in the future. To retreat from everyone and everything, and never hurry again. Think, and tend the bees, nothing else. But what if you were to find something inside yourself that you didn’t like? It would be too late to change anything.”
On manipulation:
“The art of managing people consists of two simple things: knowing what a person most wants and what he most fears. Then acting accordingly.”
On Russian History, the emperor Paul I:
“Who had reduced the serfs’ obligatory period of work for their owners to three days a week? Why, that came to less than current taxes in some countries! And who tightened the reins on the galloping growth of aristocratic privilege? No wonder the aristocracy lined up against him, had him murdered, and slandered him posthumously: the dead can’t reply.”… (altro)