UID:
edocfu_9958352115002883
Format:
1 online resource(xii,403p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. : Harvard University Press, 1989. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780674497948
Series Statement:
Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov; Volume II
Content:
Velimir Khlebnikov, who died in 1922 at the age of thirty-six, is one of the great innovators of literary modernism. In Russia a powerful and growing mythology surrounds this Futurist poet and his reputation elsewhere continues to mount. The second volume of the Collected Works consists of Khlebnikov's fiction (thirty-five short stories, dreams, mysteries, and fanciful folktales), his plays, and his unique supersagas, a syncretic genre he created to encompass his iconoclastic view of the world. Paul Schmidt's are the first translations of these works into English. They chronicle the artist's imagination in his feverish search for a poetics that could be as diverse as the universe itself. The fictions, ranging from the mysterious "Murksong" to the epic "Yasir," show a great variety of styles and themes. But it is in the dramatic text that we best see Khlebnikov's struggle to find a workable form for his vision. The Girl-God, symbolist-inspired, is a mélange of stylistic shifts and impossible scene changes. In The Little Devil, The Marquise des S., and the sardonic Miss Death Makes a Mistakes, Khlebnikov finally finds a stageable theatrical form, in a mixture of satire, colloquial speech, and poetic reflections on art and immortality. The dramatist reaches even higher in the supersagas Otter's Children and Zangezi, achieving a Wagnerian fusion of action, poetry, history, theory, and the musical rhythms of incantation.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Translator's Introduction --
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Introduction --
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Self-Statement --
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A Sinner’s Seduction --
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The I-Singer of Universong --
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Hooder --
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Murksong --
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A Simple Story --
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A Schoolgirl’s Story --
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Youngman Mecrocosm --
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The Dead Son Leaves His Burial Mound --
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Easter Day --
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Okó --
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"Lubny is a strange, godforsaken town" --
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"Kolya was a handsome boy" --
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Mountain People --
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A Heart of Steel --
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Nikolai --
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Usa-Gali --
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Ka --
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Notes from the Past --
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"I went to Asoka" --
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"We climbed aboard" --
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Dream --
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"Once again I followed the yellow paths" --
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The Scythian Headdress: Α Mysterium --
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"Does a story have to start with childhood" --
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"You could swim" --
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"No one will deny" --
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Yasir --
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October on the Neva --
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The Hunt --
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The Scarlet Saber --
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Before the War --
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"Whose idea was it anyway ?" --
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Razin: Two Trinities --
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The Willow Twig --
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Introduction --
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Snowhite --
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The Girl-God --
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The Little Devil --
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The Marquise des S. --
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Asparuh --
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"Laughing-Eyes" --
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Mrs. Laneen --
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Backworlds --
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"A coarse black face" --
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Miss Death Makes a Mistake --
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"A street of the future" --
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The Gods --
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The Tuberculosis Spirochete --
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Introduction --
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Otter’s Children --
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War in a Mousetrap --
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Azia Unbound --
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Zangezi --
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Notes --
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Russian Index of Titles --
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English Index of Titles.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674497931
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/harvard.9780674497948
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674497948
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