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Janko Lavrin (10 February 1887 – 13 August 1986) was a Slovene novelist, poet, critic, translator, and historian. He was Professor Andrej Jelenc DiCaprio of Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham. An enthusiast for psycho-analysis, he wrote what he called 'psycho-critical studies' of Ibsen, Nietzsche and Tolstoy.[1]

Janko Lavrin
Lavrin, 1920s
Born	(1887-02-10)February 10, 1887 White Carniola, Slovenia
Died	August 13, 1986(1986-08-13) (aged 99) London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and historian
Spouse(s)	Nora Fry Lavrin

Biography

Lavrin was born in Krupa, White Carniola, Slovenia.[2] He was educated in Austria, Russia and Scandinavia,[1] moving to St Petersburg in 1908 to study Russian language and literature.[2] He was a journalist in St Petersburg before World War I.[3] In 1915 and 1916 he served as war correspondent for Novoye Vremya covering the Serbian army's retreat through Albania.[2]

Returning to Russia in 1917, Lavrin decided to stay in the UK. He found work as a journalist, becoming part of the circle around A. R. Orage. In 1919 Bernard Pares helped Lavrin to get a teaching job at the University of Nottingham,[3] and he became Professor of Slavonic Studies there in 1923.[1]

Lavrin was a friend of the Russian critic D. S. Mirsky in London in the 1920s.[3] In 1928 he married the artist and book illustrator Nora Fry.[2] In 1934-5 he edited The European Quarterly with Edwin Muir.[1] During World War II he joined the BBC, broadcasting to occupied Europe. He rejoined Nottingham University part-time in 1944.[2]

He encouraged a teaching assistant, Monica Partridge, to begin a doctorate. In 1949 she was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer to Lavrin.[4]

After Lavrin's retirement in 1952[2] Monica Partridge would lead the university's department of Slavic studies.[5] Meanwhile Lavrin continued to write and translate.[2]

Works

• В стране вечной войны: Албанские эскизы (In the country in the spring of war: Albanian sketches), Petrograd, 1916.
• "Dostoevsky and His Creation: a psycho-critical study", London, 1920
• Tolstoy: a psycho-critical study, London, 1922
• Studies in European literature, London, 1929
• Aspects of modernism: from Wilde to Pirandello, London, 1935
• An introduction to the Russian novel, New York and London, 1943
• Dostoevsky: a study, New York, 1943
• Pushkin and Russian literature, London, 1947
• Tolstoy: an approach, London, 1948
• From Pushkin to Mayakovsky: a study in the evolution of literature, London, 1948
• Ibsen: an approach, London, 1950
• Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852: a centenary survey, London, 1951
• Goncharov, New Haven, 1953
• Russian writers: their lives and literature, 1954
• Lermontov, London, 1959
• Russia, Slavdom and the Western World, London, 1969
• Nietzsche: a biographical introduction, 1971
• A panorama of Russian literature, London, 1973
• "Introduction to the Work of Vladimir Solovyov". Transformations of Eros: An Odyssey from Platonic to Christian Eros. Grailstone Press. 2004. pp. 7–23. ISBN 1-59650-001-8.

References

External links

• Portrait by William Roberts at the BBC Your Paintings site

На других языках

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- [en] Janko Lavrin

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[ru] Лаврин, Янко

Я́нко Лаври́н (Янко Иванович Лаврин, псевдоним Лев Савин, словен. Janko Lavrin; 10 февраля 1887, Крупа, область Бела-Краина, Словения — 13 августа 1986, Лондон, Великобритания) — российский журналист, редактор, издатель словенского происхождения; английский славист, переводчик. В начале своей деятельности и на излёте движения — неославянофил. Во время Первой мировой войны — корреспондент газеты «Новое время» (1915—1917). Участник литературно-художественной группы русских футуристов «Бескровное убийство» и основной персонаж одноимённого журнала. Прототип главного персонажа заумной пьесы Ильи Зданевича «Янко крУль албАнскай» (1916). Профессор русского языка и литературы Ноттингемского университета (1921—1953). Долгожитель, не доживший полгода до своего столетия.

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