"Semechki": Konstantin Vaginov's notebook
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"Semechki": Konstantin Vaginov's notebook
19.99 €
Konstantin Vaginov (1899-1934) is one of the most original writers of the 1920s and early 1930s, who published four poetry collections and wrote four novels. He was a member of various poetic and intellectual circles: in the association "Sounding Shell" of N. S. Gumilev, in the "Ring of poets named after K. K. Fofanov", in the circle of M. A. Kuzmin and M. M. Bakhtin, in the translation circle ABDEM and the association OBERIU. The writer's archive contains a voluminous notebook, most of which, entitled "Seeds", is devoted to notes reflecting his everyday experience of interaction with the speech and textual environment. The language of the city street, streetcar conversations, and anecdotes heard in queues are interspersed on the pages of the notebook with quotations from posters, advertisements, and books, selected with a distinct predilection for oral fixations. "Seeds", although not conceived as an independent work, is endowed with an obvious creative pragmatics: it is here that the poetic problematics and literary techniques important to Vaginov in the early 1930s are most radically and consistently developed: extreme forms of combining discourses and styles, the incorporation of live speech into a literary work, and the techniques of collage narrative. Although the notebook has long been known to researchers of Konstantin Vaginov's work, it has been published only in fragments. The present edition is the first full publication of Konstantin Vaginov's notebook, accompanied by a number of articles, commentary and illustrations.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Avant-garde