Evgheni Evtusenko

Evgheni Aleksandrovici Evtușenko (în rusă: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко) (n. 18 iulie 1833) a fost poet rus. Reprezentant de seamă al "dezghețului" după moartea lui Stalin, a fost una dintre primele voci umaniste care s-au făcut auzite în spațiul comunist-totalitarist sovietic, ca apărătoare a libertății individuale. Opera 1952: Cercetașii viitorului ("Разведчики грядущего"); 1956: Șoseaua entuziaștilor ("Шоссе Энтузиастов"); 1957: Mormintele partizanilor; 1970: Universitatea din Kazan ("Казанский...

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Evgheni Evtusenko

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Ilf & Petrov

Ilf (pseudonimul lui Ilia Arnoldovici Feinzilberg, 15 octombrie 1897–13 aprilie 1937) și Petrov (pseudonimul lui Evghenii Petrovici Kataev, 13 decembrie 1903–2 iulie 1942) au fost scriitori ruși, care au colaborat la o serie de romane, povestiri, foiletoane și schițe satirice. În cele mai valoroase scrieri ale lor — Douăsprezece scaune (în rusă Двенадцать стульев, 1928) și Vițelul de aur (în rusă Золотой телёнок, 1931) — ei critică birocrația, lăcomia, tradițiile învechite. În urma unei călătorii în Statele Unite, Ilf și Petrov au editat cartea America cu un singur etaj (în rusă Одноэтажная Америка, 1936). În ce privește activitatea separată, Ilf este autorul culegerii Note de caiet (editată...

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Sylvia Plath

Born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem when she was eight. Sensitive, intelligent, compelled toward perfection in everything she attempted, she was, on the surface, a model daughter, popular in school, earning straight A\'s, winning the best prizes. By the time she entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1950 she already had an impressive list of publications, and while at Smith she wrote over four hundred poems. Sylvia\'s surface perfection was however underlain by grave personal discontinuities, some of which doubtless had their origin in the death of her father (he was a college professor and an expert on bees) when she was eight. During the summer following her junior year at Smith, having returned from a stay in New York City where she had been a student ``guest editor\'\' at Mademoiselle Magazine, Sylvia nearly succeeded in killing herself by swallowing sleeping pills. She later described this experience in an...

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Anda Amir-Pinkerfeld

Scriitoare din Israel - născută 1902 - decedată 1981 Anda Pinkerfeld-Amir was born to an anti-Zionist family in Poland but became a committed Zionist who immigrated to Israel as a member of Ha-Shomer ha-Za'ir, abandoning her goal of writing in Polish to become instead a beloved writer of Hebrew poetry and children's literature. Anda Pinkerfeld was born in Rzeszow, Poland on June 26, 1902. Her father Joel Pinkerfeld, who served as an officer in the Polish army, was an architect who designed buildings in Galicia. Her family was assimilated and cultured; as anti-Zionists, they did not believe in the necessity of Hebrew or Jewish education. Anda wrote her first work in Polish, a prayer for the emancipation of Poland, when she was seven years old and published her first volume of Polish poetry (Pie’sni Zycia, Song of Life, 1921) when she was eighteen. In the wake of antisemitic pogroms in Lvov, Anda came under the sway of Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir while a student at a Polish gymnasia and switched...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

The core of Krishnamurti\'s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said: \'Truth is a pathless land\'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind . . . Statement by Krishnamurti in 1981. Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11th May 1895 in Madanapalle, a town in south India, the eighth child in a middle-class family. At an early age he was adopted by Annie Besant, then the President of the Theosophical Society, with its headquarters in Madras. She took Krishnamurti and his brother Nitya to England where she had them educated privately. On Krishnamurti\'s return to India while still in his teens, Theosophists proclaimed him to be the world teacher whose coming they had been awaiting. They built a large and rich order round him, with...

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on April 17, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. His father was John Wordsworth, Sir James Lowther\'s attorney. The magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth\'s imagination and gave him a love of nature. He lost his mother when he was eight and five years later his father. The domestic problems separated Wordsworth from his beloved and neurotic sister Dorothy, who was a very important person in his life. With the help of his two uncles, Wordsworth entered a local school and continued his studies at Cambridge University. Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787, when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine . In that same year he entered St. John\'s College, Cambridge, from where he took his B.A. in 1791. During a summer vacation in 1790 Wordsworth went on a walking tour through revolutionary France and also traveled in Switzerland. On his second journey in France, Wordsworth had an affair with a French girl, Annette...

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