Dovid Knout: New materials

Abstract

The literary and epistolary heritage of the famous émigré poet Dovid Knout (David Mironovich Fixman, 1900–1955) has already become the subject of publications and research studies more than once. However, a relatively recent discovery in Israel, where Knout lived the last years of his life, where he died and is buried, a significant and still unknown part of his archive (unpublished poems, prose, articles, diary, letters, etc.) gives a new actuality to the study of his life and works. It may be said that partly unknown (or little-known) Knout opens up to specialists and a broad reader. For this publication several letters from the newly-discovered archive – written by Knout himself (to the first and second wives: Sara-Sophia Grabois and Ariadna Skriabin) and to him by different persons (G. Adamovich, D. Glikberg, R. Grinberg and others) – are selected.

Keywords

• dovid knout
• georgy adamovich
• roman grinberg
• russian émigré
• correspondence