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.
English and 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.
Soviet literature
Russia.

Form/genre:

anthologies.
Translations.

Added entries:

Kelly, Catriona.

Holdings:

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