Iurii Felzen

Bryan Karetnyk (University College London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 24 Oct 1894
Died 13 Feb 1943
Activity 1918-1943

Places

Born in Russia
Active in France; Germany

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Other

Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Felzen's Works

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The author, critic and publicist Yuri Felsen (Fel’zen; the pseudonym of Nikolai Bernhardovich Freudenstein, 1894–1943) entered the pantheon of Russian émigré letters as one of the most interesting and original figures among what Vladimir Varshavskii termed “the unnoticed generation”. Yet Felsen’s literary trajectory ultimately proved paradoxical: despite an almost universal acclaim during his lifetime, his untimely death at Auschwitz precipitated a sharp decline into obscurity, from which he has only begun to emerge in the twenty-first century.

Felsen was born in St Petersburg on 24 October 1894, soon after his Jewish parents moved to the imperial capital from Riga. The son of a physician (Bernhard Abramovich, 1864–1933), he studied law at Petrograd Imperial University,

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Citation: Karetnyk, Bryan. "Iurii Felzen". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 September 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13960, accessed 16 October 2024.]