SATIRE AS SURVIVAL IN THE LITERATURE OF GRIGORI GORIN
SATIRE AS SURVIVAL IN THE LITERATURE OF GRIGORI GORIN

Summary/Abstract: Russian playwright and doctor, Grigory Israilevich Ofshtein (1940–2000), Grigori Gorin, was born in Moscow into an Ukrainian Jewish family. His father was an army officer and his mother a doctor. In 1963, the young Ofshtein graduated from the Sechenov Medical Institute. For a short time after completing his medical studies, Ofshtein worked as an ambulance driver. But even during his student years, he wrote plays. At first, he published sketches in the student club magazine, and in 1960 he began to publish articles. His satire, although it camouflaged the dark truths of Soviet society, brought him the position of head of the humor department at the Yunost magazine. Ofshtein often published under the pseudonym Galka Galkina. Our article aims to analyze how the author's medical studies had an overwhelming influence on his way of positioning himself towards the world and writing dramaturgy.

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