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Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism
Eugene Ostashevsky (Ed.)
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Description for Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism
Paperback. This poetry anthology includes the work of Russian writers Alexander Vedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky who, between 1927 and 1930 made up the core of OBERIU (The Union of Real Art), and of Nikolai Oleinikov, Leonid Lipavsky and Yakov Druskin who worked in the same vein. They offer a reflection of the distorted reality they rejected. Editor(s): Ostashevsky, Eugene. Translator(s): Ostashevsky, Eugene; Yankelevich, Matvei. Series: European Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in somizdat and emigre publications. Some called it the last of the Russian avant-garde, and others called it the first (and last) instance of Absurdism in Russia: however difficult to classify, it was OBERIU (from an acronym standing for The Union of Real Art), and the pleasures of its poetry and prose are, with this volume, at long last fully open to English-speaking readers. This anthology includes the work of ... Read more
It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in somizdat and emigre publications. Some called it the last of the Russian avant-garde, and others called it the first (and last) instance of Absurdism in Russia: however difficult to classify, it was OBERIU (from an acronym standing for The Union of Real Art), and the pleasures of its poetry and prose are, with this volume, at long last fully open to English-speaking readers. This anthology includes the work of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Language
Russian
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
European Classics
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810122932
SKU
V9780810122932
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About Eugene Ostashevsky (Ed.)
Eugene Ostashevsky is a master teacher of the humanities in the General Studies program at New York University. In 2003 he won the Wytter Bynner Foundation Translation Prize. Matvei Yankelevich is a doctoral student in comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series for Ugly Duckling ... Read more
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