At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde: Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Autor Lars Kleberg Traducere de Charles Rougleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 noi 2025
This kaleidoscopic biography offers readers a compelling microhistory of a revolutionary moment in art and politics through its portrait of an enigmatic but influential figure: Ivan Aksyonov authored the first book-length study about Pablo Picasso, translated Elizabethan drama, and was a literary adviser to Vsevolod Meyerhold, as well as a teacher of Sergei Eisenstein in Meyerhold’s institute and an important critic, before dying in 1935. Lars Kleberg traces Aksyonov’s influences, interlocutors, and creative output in multiple genres and media to bring a complicated and fascinating character back to life. Kleberg invites us to reconsider the avant-garde and to understand the political and artistic ferment of the revolutionary era and its aftermath in new, deeper ways.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810149588
ISBN-10: 0810149583
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 9 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
ISBN-10: 0810149583
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 9 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Notă biografică
LARS KLEBERG is a professor emeritus of Russian at Södertörn University. His books include Starfall: A Triptych (Northwestern University Press).
CHARLES ROUGLE (1946-2020) was a professor of Russian language and literature in the Department of Slavic Languages at the State University of New York, Albany. His books include Red Cavalry: A Critical Companion (Northwestern University Press).
CHARLES ROUGLE (1946-2020) was a professor of Russian language and literature in the Department of Slavic Languages at the State University of New York, Albany. His books include Red Cavalry: A Critical Companion (Northwestern University Press).
Cuprins
Preface
Chapter One
In which two poets get married in Kiev in 1910 and a young noble officer with the reputation of a rebel is invited to be a wedding marshal, whereupon he enters literature and becomes the hero of the present book.
Chapter Two
About a trip to Paris, where the Russian visitor finds the Eiffel Tower to be more interesting than the Louvre. How Picasso has a visitor and forgets to turn his paintings toward the wall. A find at a bouquiniste paves the way for Lautréamont’s works in Russia.
Chapter Three
About the outbreak of the Great War that will mean the end of so much and so many. The engineer corps officer writes explosive poems and at night translates bloody seventeenth-century English plays. A correspondence begins between two poets about how to get rid of rival Futurists and about problems of metrics.
Chapter Four
In which the officer is transferred to the Romanian front and, after unexpected events in Petrograd, becomes the leader of a revolutionary committee. How Lenin is suggested as a contributor to a new Futurist newspaper. How after spending time in prison in Romania, the Red commander brings a thick manuscript in his baggage to Moscow, where as a poet he takes part in literary soirees, as an officer gives lectures to the army brass on engineering, and as a Bolshevik attends meetings of a secret committee that issues a steady stream of death sentences.
Chapter Five
In which a theater director becomes convinced that the three-dimensional art called Constructivism is the answer to the needs of the new theater and how this results in performances the likes of which the world has never seen. The Constructivist Lyubov Popova dies from scarlet fever, leaving a large void in Russian art and a big hole in the critic’s heart. How the chairman of the All-Russian Union of Poets arranges a free dinner for the Futurist poet and vagabond Velimir Khlebnikov.
Chapter Six
In which the unemployed critic breaks with his colleagues, marries a woman he calls his “little boy,” and becomes engrossed in William Shakespeare. How he hurriedly leaves Moscow to become a teacher of physics in the provinces, authors a brochure on the state of the Soviet Russian baking industry, and studies Shakespeare’s contemporary Ben Jonson.
Chapter Seven
In which three essays on three great artists in three different genres are never published. How in 1935 the poet, critic, and translator dies in obscurity in Moscow and is soon forgotten, missed by a mere handful of people.
PostfaceChronology of Ivan Aksyonov’s Life
General Chronology
Biographical Notes
Notes
Index of Names
Chapter One
In which two poets get married in Kiev in 1910 and a young noble officer with the reputation of a rebel is invited to be a wedding marshal, whereupon he enters literature and becomes the hero of the present book.
Chapter Two
About a trip to Paris, where the Russian visitor finds the Eiffel Tower to be more interesting than the Louvre. How Picasso has a visitor and forgets to turn his paintings toward the wall. A find at a bouquiniste paves the way for Lautréamont’s works in Russia.
Chapter Three
About the outbreak of the Great War that will mean the end of so much and so many. The engineer corps officer writes explosive poems and at night translates bloody seventeenth-century English plays. A correspondence begins between two poets about how to get rid of rival Futurists and about problems of metrics.
Chapter Four
In which the officer is transferred to the Romanian front and, after unexpected events in Petrograd, becomes the leader of a revolutionary committee. How Lenin is suggested as a contributor to a new Futurist newspaper. How after spending time in prison in Romania, the Red commander brings a thick manuscript in his baggage to Moscow, where as a poet he takes part in literary soirees, as an officer gives lectures to the army brass on engineering, and as a Bolshevik attends meetings of a secret committee that issues a steady stream of death sentences.
Chapter Five
In which a theater director becomes convinced that the three-dimensional art called Constructivism is the answer to the needs of the new theater and how this results in performances the likes of which the world has never seen. The Constructivist Lyubov Popova dies from scarlet fever, leaving a large void in Russian art and a big hole in the critic’s heart. How the chairman of the All-Russian Union of Poets arranges a free dinner for the Futurist poet and vagabond Velimir Khlebnikov.
Chapter Six
In which the unemployed critic breaks with his colleagues, marries a woman he calls his “little boy,” and becomes engrossed in William Shakespeare. How he hurriedly leaves Moscow to become a teacher of physics in the provinces, authors a brochure on the state of the Soviet Russian baking industry, and studies Shakespeare’s contemporary Ben Jonson.
Chapter Seven
In which three essays on three great artists in three different genres are never published. How in 1935 the poet, critic, and translator dies in obscurity in Moscow and is soon forgotten, missed by a mere handful of people.
PostfaceChronology of Ivan Aksyonov’s Life
General Chronology
Biographical Notes
Notes
Index of Names
Recenzii
“Kleberg's lucid and lively account of Ivan Aksyonov's career is a portrait of the entire Russian avant-garde, whose colorful personalities and inexhaustible creativity fall into place around this shadowy but omnipresent figure—a poet, critic, and translator who seems to have had his hand in everything.” —Jacob Emery, Indiana University
Descriere
At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde: Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism is a pioneering study of Ivan Aksyonov, the influential but enigmatic personality who was at the very center of the world of the Russian avant-garde movement.