ARCHIVE OF THE POET E.P. IORDANSKIY AS A SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF LITERARY MOVEMENT AND “SAMIZDAT” PUBLISHING IN SIBERIA IN THE 1960S-1980S
V.G. Ivanov
State Public Scientific Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS), Russia, 630200, Novosibirsk, Voshod str., 15
Keywords: ïîýçèÿ, àíäåãðàóíä, ñàìèçäàò, Ñèáèðü, ëè÷íûé àðõèâ, Å. Ï. Èîðäàíñêèé, À. Â. Ìàêîâñêèé, ëèòåðàòóðíîå äâèæåíèå 1960-1980-õ ãã, ëèòåðàòóðíûå ãðóïïû, poetry, underground, samizdat, Siberia, personal archive, E.P. Iordanskiy, A. V. Makowskiy, literary movement of 1960s 0 1980s, poetry groups
Abstract
The paper deals with a significant source on the history of uncensored press and poetry of Siberia - the archive of E.P. Iordanskiy who was a poet and activist of “samizdat” publishing in Novosibirsk. The author analyzes archival documents, describes the history of its publishing in relation to the activities of Sokur group of poets, the “Left Siberia” group and to the creative work of a famous Russian underground poet A. V. Makovskiy. The first book of Makovskiy’s poems was based on manuscripts from Iordanskiy’s archive. E.P. Iordanskiy is still following Makovskiy’s principles of evaluation of poetry. He has always demonstrated individual approach to the young poets, which was very important in the “novitiate” period. The main element in such approach was his search for novelty which could not be substituted with cliches and stock phrases. This sense of novelty in poetry is always connected with perception of the life itself. The presence of novelty meant for Makovskiy the denial of routine. After all Makovskiy appreciated the original primitive state of every phenomenon. However he himself was well known in the “undergound” circles of Russia being a significant figure of uncensored poetry. To this extent the “Sokur school” and “Left Siberia” group were not absolutely isolated and historically could be included in the tradition of development of the similar groups such as the famous “Lianozovo school”, “Helenukt group” and others. Despite the fact that these groups differed in styles and approaches to working with words one can determine points where they were coming together as well as points of their repulsion. However the certain “remoteness” of the Sokur school makes difficulties for further publication of the archival materials of this archive due to the fact that publishers of Makovskiy’s poetry and his heirs use different systems of selection and evaluation of his poems. In this case contradictory views on publishing are very explicit, as they are caused by the program principles of Makovskiy’s poetry along with Iordanskiy’s desire to preserve these principles which can eventually result in conservation of this archive.
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