# Lev Loseff

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{{short description|American poet}}

'''Lev Loseff'''<!-- funny spelling of surname per ref --><ref name="dartmouth"/> ({{langx|ru|Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев}}; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.<ref name="ozon">{{cite web |url=http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/242801/ |title=Lev Vladimirovich Loseff |language=Russian |publisher=Ozon.ru |accessdate=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122041749/http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/242801/ |archive-date=November 22, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Early life and education==
The son of poet [Vladimir Lifshitz](/source/Vladimir_Lifshitz), Loseff was born in [Leningrad](/source/Saint_Petersburg).<ref name="ozon" /> He attended Leningrad's famous [Saint Peter's School](/source/Saint_Peter's_School_(Saint_Petersburg)) and graduated from the journalism department of the [Leningrad State University](/source/Saint_Petersburg_State_University).<ref name="ozon" />

==Literary career==
Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/06/world/soviet-turmoil-exiled-russian-writers-free-to-return-find-visiting-is-enough.html?pagewanted=all |title=Soviet Turmoil; Exiled Russian Writers, Free to Return, Find Visiting Is Enough |first=Seth |last=Mydans |newspaper=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=September 6, 1991}}</ref>  He earned a [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan) and became a professor of Russian literature at [Dartmouth College](/source/Dartmouth_College) in [Hanover, New Hampshire](/source/Hanover%2C_New_Hampshire), a position he held until his death thirty years later.<ref name="dartmouth">{{cite news |url=http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/12/russian-department-chair-dies-at-71/ |title=Russian department chair dies at 71 |last=Gonzalez |first=Katie |newspaper=[The Dartmouth](/source/The_Dartmouth) |date=May 12, 2009 |accessdate=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628105756/http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/12/russian-department-chair-dies-at-71/ |archive-date=June 28, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.<!-- В [1962](/source/1962)—[1975](/source/1975) гг. работал редактором в детском журнале «Костёр», писал пьесы для кукольного театра, стихи для детей. Взял [псевдоним](/source/%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC) «Лосев», чтобы его не путали с отцом; после эмиграции в [США](/source/%D0%A1%D0%A8%D0%90) ([1976](/source/1976)) сделал бывший псевдоним своим паспортным именем. В США работал наборщиком-корректором в издательстве «Ардис», закончил аспирантуру [Мичиганского университета](/source/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82) и с [1979](/source/1979) г. преподавал русскую литературу в [Дартмутском колледже](/source/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B6) в штате [Нью-Гэмпшир](/source/%D0%9D%D1%8C%D1%8E-%D0%93%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80). Написал книгу об [эзоп](/source/%D1%8D%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BF)овом языке в советской литературе и много статей. Писал лирические стихи в студенческие годы, но сомневался в их самостоятельности и бросил. Начал писать снова, неожиданно для себя, в [1974](/source/1974) г., а с [1979](/source/1979) г. печататься, сначала в эмигрантских изданиях, а с [1988](/source/1988) г. и в России. Писал, в частности, о «[Слове о полку Игореве](/source/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D1%83_%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5)», [Антоне Чехове](/source/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87), [Анне Ахматовой](/source/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0), [Александре Солженицыне](/source/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8B%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%98%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87), [Иосифе Бродском](/source/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87). Под его редакцией выходили книги [Михаила Булгакова](/source/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB), [Николая Олейникова](/source/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87), [Евгения Шварца](/source/%D0%A8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%86%2C_%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87). -->

Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.polit.ru/news/2009/05/07/losev.html|title = В США скончался писатель и литературовед Лев Лосев}}</ref>

==Works==
*Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life
*Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
*Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail)
*On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature
*Poetika Brodskogo
*Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
*A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr)
*Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian.<ref name="dartmouth"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* https://www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/losev0.html
* http://www.rvb.ru/np/publication/02comm/10/07losev.htm
* [http://gallery.vavilon.ru/people/l/losev/ Photographs of Loseff]
* [http://www.booknik.ru/reviews/non-fiction/?id=12088&type=BigReview Book review] of Loseff's biography of [Joseph Brodsky](/source/Joseph_Brodsky).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090510015629/http://www.ogoniok.com/5070/27/  Interview with Loseff] in [Ogonyok](/source/Ogonyok) magazine.
* https://levloseff.blogspot.com/
* "''Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life'' by Lev Loseff" in ''Quarterly Conversation'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20190601161714/http://quarterlyconversation.com/joseph-brodsky-a-literary-life-by-lev-loseff]

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