Collected works of Velimir Khlebnikov : volume I : letters and theoretical writings / Velimir Khlebnikov ; edited by Ronald Vroon ; translated by Paul Schmidt
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2013ISBN: 9780674497917.Subject(s): Edebiyat -- Şiir -- Kişisel yazışmalar -- Rusya -- 20.yüzyıl
| Literature -- Poets -- Personal correspondence -- Russia -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 891.7 KHL General note: Dubbed by his fellow Futurists the "King of Time," Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) spent his entire brief life searching for a new poetic language to express his convictions about the rhythm of history, the correspondence between human behavior and the "language of the stars." The result was a vast body of poetry and prose that has been called hermetic, incomprehensible, even deranged. Of all this tragic generation of Russian poets (including Blok, Esenin, and Mayakovsky), Khlebnikov has been perhaps the most praised and the more censured.
This first volume of the Collected Works, an edition sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation, will do much to establish the counterimage of Khlebnikov as an honest, serious writer. The 117 letters published here for the first time in English reveal an ebullient, humane, impractical, but deliberate working artist. We read of the continuing involvement with his family throughout his vagabond life (pleas to his smartest sister, Vera, to break out of the mold, pleas to his scholarly father not to condemn and to send a warm overcoat); the naive pleasure he took in being applauded by other artists; his insistence that a young girl's simple verses be included in one of the typically outrageous Futurist publications of the time; his jealous fury at the appearance in Moscow of the Italian Futurist Marinetti; a first draft of his famous zoo poem ("O Garden of Animals!"); his seriocomic but ultimately shattering efforts to be released from army service; his inexhaustibly courageous confrontation with his own disease and excruciating poverty; and always his deadly earnest attempt to make sense of numbers, language, suffering, politics, and the exigencies of publication.
The theoretical writings presented here are even more important than the letters to an understanding of Khlebnikov's creative output. In the scientific articles written before 1910, we discern foreshadowings of major patterns of later poetic work. In the pan-Slavic proclamations of 1908-1914, we find explicit connections between cultural roots and linguistic ramifications. In the semantic excursuses beginning in 1915, we can see Khlebnikov's experiments with consonants, nouns, and definitions spelled out in accessible, if arid, form. The essays of 1916-1922 take us into the future of Planet Earth, visions of universal order and accomplishment that no longer seem so farfetched but indeed resonate for modern readers.General note: "Johanna Gustafsson Fürst & Dilek Winchester : GLOSSOLALALA" sergisi ile bağlantılıdır = Related to "Johanna Gustafsson Fürst & Dilek Winchester : GLOSSOLALALA" exhibition| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Dubbed by his fellow Futurists the "King of Time," Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) spent his entire brief life searching for a new poetic language to express his convictions about the rhythm of history, the correspondence between human behavior and the "language of the stars." The result was a vast body of poetry and prose that has been called hermetic, incomprehensible, even deranged. Of all this tragic generation of Russian poets (including Blok, Esenin, and Mayakovsky), Khlebnikov has been perhaps the most praised and the more censured.
This first volume of the Collected Works, an edition sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation, will do much to establish the counterimage of Khlebnikov as an honest, serious writer. The 117 letters published here for the first time in English reveal an ebullient, humane, impractical, but deliberate working artist. We read of the continuing involvement with his family throughout his vagabond life (pleas to his smartest sister, Vera, to break out of the mold, pleas to his scholarly father not to condemn and to send a warm overcoat); the naive pleasure he took in being applauded by other artists; his insistence that a young girl's simple verses be included in one of the typically outrageous Futurist publications of the time; his jealous fury at the appearance in Moscow of the Italian Futurist Marinetti; a first draft of his famous zoo poem ("O Garden of Animals!"); his seriocomic but ultimately shattering efforts to be released from army service; his inexhaustibly courageous confrontation with his own disease and excruciating poverty; and always his deadly earnest attempt to make sense of numbers, language, suffering, politics, and the exigencies of publication.
The theoretical writings presented here are even more important than the letters to an understanding of Khlebnikov's creative output. In the scientific articles written before 1910, we discern foreshadowings of major patterns of later poetic work. In the pan-Slavic proclamations of 1908-1914, we find explicit connections between cultural roots and linguistic ramifications. In the semantic excursuses beginning in 1915, we can see Khlebnikov's experiments with consonants, nouns, and definitions spelled out in accessible, if arid, form. The essays of 1916-1922 take us into the future of Planet Earth, visions of universal order and accomplishment that no longer seem so farfetched but indeed resonate for modern readers.
"Johanna Gustafsson Fürst & Dilek Winchester : GLOSSOLALALA" sergisi ile bağlantılıdır = Related to "Johanna Gustafsson Fürst & Dilek Winchester : GLOSSOLALALA" exhibition
Contents
Letters and Biographical Writings
Introduction: Velimir Khlebnikov • 3
Letters • 35
Questionnaire • 141
Autobiographical Note • 144
Self-Statement • 146
From Journals • 150
From Notes from the Past • 160
Theoretical Writings
Introduction: Kindred Spirits • 165
one. NATURE • 195
“Let them read on my gravestone” • 196
“On finding a cuckoo” • 199
Ornithological Observations in the Pavdinsk Preserve • 201
An Attempt To Formulate a Concept in the Natural Sciences • 222
two. RUSSIA • 225
Slavs! • 226
Who Are the Ugrorussians? • 228
About the Brodniki • 230
The Burial Mound of Sviatagor • 232
Monuments • 237
Roar about the Railroads • 241
A Friend in the West • 243
“We want a word maiden ' 246
“We accuse the older generation” • 247
Poems by Thirteen Springs • 249
Expanding the Boundaries of Russian Literature • 253
The Word as Such • 255
The Letter as Such • 257
Polemical Remarks of 1913 ’ 259
! Futurian • 260
On the Usefulness of Studying Fairy Tales -263
three. LANGUAGE • 265
''Let us consider two words” • 266
“Here is the way the syllable so is a field” • 272
“The ear of the philologist detects” • 274
Teacher and Student • 277
Two Individuals • 288
“The warrior of the kingdom” • 292
Oleg and Kazimir • 296
On the Simple Names of Language • 299
Z and Its Environs • 304
Analyzing the Word • 307
A Little Introductory Dictionary of Single-Syllable Words • 313
A Checklist: The Alphabet of the Mind • 314
A Second Language • 318
four. VISIONS OF THE FUTURE ■ 320
The Trumpet of the Martians ■ 32I
A Letter to Two Japanese • 32i
Lalia Rides a Tiger • 329
Letter to Grigory Petnikov • 336
Outline for a Public Lecture and Discussion • 338
“We, the Presidents of Planet Earth” • 340
An Indo-Russian Union • 341
Asiaunion • 343
Swanland in the Future • 344
Ourselves and Our Buildings • 347
Proposals • 357
The Head of the Universe • 362
Artists of the World! • 364
On Poetry • 370
On Contemporary Poetry • 373
Our Fundamentals • 376
The Radio of the Future • 392
A Cliff out of the Future • 397
From the Notebooks • 400
The Wheel of Births • 411
Order from the Presidents of Planet Earth • 413
“There is a phrase” • 415
Excerpt from The Tables of Destiny • 417
Everyone, Everywhere, Attention! • 434
five. JOURNALISM • 43 6
The Union of Inventors • 437
Opening of the People’s University • 43 8
Opening of an Art Gallery • 441
The Astrakhan Gioconda • 443
Index of Khlebnikov tides • 445
General Index • 448
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