Victory over the Sun - Softcover

Kruchenykh, Aleksei

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069230231X ISBN 13: 9780692302316

Publisher: Cervena Barva Press, 2014

Synopsis

Aleksei Yeliseyevich Kruchyonykh (Russian: Алексе́й Елисе́евич Кручёных; 9 February 1886 – 17 June 1968). Original name at birth (Ukrainian: Олексій Єлисейович Кручений) also romanized Kruchenykh due to confusion about ⟨ё⟩, was a poet, artist, and theorist, perhaps one of the most radical poets of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others. Born in 1886, he lived in the time of the Russian Silver Age of literature, and together with Velimir Khlebnikov, another Russian Futurist, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum, a poetry style utilising nonsense words. Kruchonykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun, with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich. In 1912, he wrote the poem Dyr bul shchyl; four years later, in 1916, he created his most famous book, Universal War.

He is also known for his Declaration of the Word as Such (1913): "The worn-out, violated word "lily" is devoid of all expression. Therefore I call the lily éuy – and original purity is restored."

Edition details

• Publisher: Cervena Barva Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 069230231X
• ISBN 13: 9780692302316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56
• Editor: Ostashevsky Eugene