Title & Author:

Utopias : Russian modernist texts 1905-1940 / edited by Catriona Kelly.

Publication:

London : Penguin, 1999.

Description:

xxx, 378 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354) and index.
[A Martian Factory] / Aleksandr Bogdanov -- [Moscow Symphony] / Andrei Bely -- 'Proposals' / Velimir Khlebnikov -- [The Temple of the Machines] / Fyodor Gladkov -- [The Building-site of the Future] / Andrei Platonov -- 'The Fair at White Kolp' / 'Ivan Kremnyov' (Aleksandr Chayanov) -- From Lenin / Nikolai Klyuev -- [An Experiment Goes Wrong] / Mikhail Bulgakov -- [Hammersmith Station] / Evgeny Zamyatin -- 'Lamarck' / Osip Mandelstam -- [The Rhythm of the Future] / Vadim Shershenevich -- [Living in Utopia] / Olga Berggolts -- 'The Start of a Really Nice Summer's Day: A Symphony' / Daniil Kharms -- 'The Bath-house / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- 'An Evening in Siena' / Aleksandr Blok -- From 'On Beautiful Clarity: Remarks on Prose' / Mikhail Kuzmin -- From 'The Paths of Classicism in Art' / Leon Bakst -- From 'The Principles of the New Art and the Reasons Why Its is Misunderstood' / Olga Rozanova -- [Against Linear Perspective] / Pavel Florensky -- 'The So-called Formal Method' / Osip Brik -- From On the Nature of the Word / Osip Mandelstam -- [Seeing Like a Camera] / Dziga Vertov -- From 'On Contemporary Photography' / Aleksandr Rodchenko -- From How to Make Verses / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- [Milton, Mayakovsky and Montage] / Sergei Eisenstein -- [Svistonov Writing] / Konstantin Vaginov -- 'Choosing a Sack' / Zinaida Gippius -- [Jam Turnovers and a Slanging Match] / Fyodor Sologub -- 'An Ass in the Latest Style (Aria for Abraded Voices)' / Sasha Chorny.
'A Slap in the Face of Public Taste' / David Burlyuk, Aleksei Kruchonykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky / [and others] -- From 'Noted Names' / Sofiya Parnok -- [No-hopers, Amateurs and Those Who Make So Bold] / Nikolai Gumilyov -- [Unbridled Roisterers] / Ilya Repin -- 'The Donkey's Tail' / Maksimilian Voloshin -- [We Prefer a Pinkerton Cover to the Concoctions of Picasso] / Sergei Yutkevich -- From 'Literary Moscow' / Osip Mandelstam -- 'The First of May' / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- 'In Praise of the Rich' / Marina Tsvetaeva -- 'Four Illustrations of How a New Idea Gobsmacks a Person Who is Unprepared for It' / Daniil Kharms -- From 'On the Dignity of Women' / Vyacheslav Ivanov -- 'The Gaze of the Egyptian Girl' / Aleksandr Blok -- From 'The Cold of Morning: A Few Words about Women's Writing' / Nadezhda Lvova -- 'Prologue, no. 6' / Valery Bryusov -- 'Sparrow Hills' / Boris Pasternak -- 'Wires, no. 3' / Marina Tsvetaeva -- 'Because I had to let go your arms' / Osip Mandelstam -- From 'The Whip' / Lidiya Zinovieva-Annibal -- [People Whose Sex is Naturally Different, or Homosexuals (utriusque naturae [sexus] homo)] / Vasily Rozanov -- From 'Histoire edifiante de mes commencements' / Mikhail Kuzmin -- From Lament for Esenin / Nikolai Klyuev -- 'But I ... ' / Mikhail Kuzmin -- 'Night. And it's snowing' / Sofiya Parnok -- From Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited / Vladimir Nabokov -- [Entering into Life] / Andrei Bely -- [The Childhood of Natalya Goncharova] / Marina Tsvetaeva.
From 'Zhenya Luvers's Childhood' / Boris Pasternak -- 'Judaic Chaos' / Osip Mandelstam -- 'The Urals for the First Time' / Boris Pasternak -- [A Baltic Childhood] / Sergei Eisenstein -- 'No, a Tula peasant woman, not my mother' / Vladislav Khodasevich -- [Dostoevsky and the Dionysiac] / Vyacheslav Ivanov -- [Homer's Catalogue of Ships] / Innokenty Annensky -- 'Insomnia. Taut Sails. And Homer in the night' / Osip Mandelstam -- [The Carnival Crowd] / Mikhail Bakhtin -- 'Scythians' / Aleksandr Blok -- 'Fore-Father' / Velimir Khlebnikov -- [My Grandfather Kept a Dancing Bear] / Nikolai Klyuev -- From 'The People and the Intelligentsia' / Aleksandr Blok -- [Noises in the Night] / Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin -- 'The waves of other-worldly nausea foam up' / Zinaida Gippius -- From The Lay of the Ruin of Russia / Aleksei Remizov -- 'The Death of Dolgushov' / Isaak Babel -- [Just Another Day's Work] / Vladimir Zazubrin -- [Eyes Like Glass Buttons] / Hava Volovich -- [Two Visions of Mayakovsky] / Yury Olesha -- From 'The First of May' / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- [The Ice Hole] / Sofiya Parnok -- 'In the Night' / Varlam Shalamov -- From 'The Unknown Soldier' / Osip Mandelstam -- 'To the Defenders of Stalin' / Anna Akhmatova -- 'Diary Entry' / Vladislav Khodasevich -- 'Pakin and Rakukin' / Daniil Kharms -- [A Small Town on the Seine] / Nadezhda Teffi -- [Russian Paris] / Nina Berberova -- [The Reasons for the Decline of Emigre Literature] / Vladislav Khodasevich.
[A Literary Soiree in Berlin] / Vladimir Nabokov -- [Stravinsky and the Pianola] / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- 'Verses to Pushkin, no. 1' / Marina Tsvetaeva -- 'Triangles' / Anna Prismanova -- 'Huron' / Nadezhda Teffi -- 'Coiffeur de chiens' / Sasha Chorny -- 'Another Planet' / Boris Poplavsky -- 'In Front of the Mirror' / Vladislav Khodasevich -- 'The Willow' / Anna Akhmatova -- 'Through a Window-light' / Sofiya Parnok.
Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

"This richly illustrated anthology brings together Bakhtin's celebrated analysis of 'carnival culture'; reflections by painter and stage designer Leon Bakst and film director Sergei Eisenstein; and major texts by Babel and Bulgakov, Mayakovsky and the Mandelstams, Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva, Nabokov and Pasternak, as well as many works by less well-known, but equally talented figures. Supporting or subverting the Soviet regime, baldly realistic or boldly experimental, they capture the essence of an astonishingly fertile and stimulating literary era."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0141180811 (paperback)
9780141180816 (paperback)

Subject:

Russian literature 20th century Translations into English.
Modernism (Literature) Russia.
Modernism (Literature)
Russian literature.
Moderne Russland Anthologie.
Moderne Russische Literatur Anthologie.
Utopie Belletristische Darstellung.
Literatur Russisch Ausgabe Anthologie.
Russia.

Form/genre:

anthologies.
Translations.

Added entries:

Kelly, Catriona.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211136
Call No.: PN849.R9 K4 1999
Status: Available