{"product_id":"collected-works-of-velimir-khlebnikov-volume-ii-prose-plays-and-supersagas-von-ronald-vroon-hrsg","title":"Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, Volume II, Prose, Plays, and Supersagas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVelimir Khlebnikov, who died in 1922 at the age of thirty-six, is one of the great innovators of literary modernism. In Russia a powerful and growing mythology surrounds this Futurist poet and his reputation elsewhere continues to mount. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The second volume of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e consists of Khlebnikov's fiction (thirty-five short stories, dreams, mysteries, and fanciful folktales), his plays, and his unique supersagas, a syncretic genre he created to encompass his iconoclastic view of the world. Paul Schmidt's are the first translations of these works into English. They chronicle the artist's imagination in his feverish search for a poetics that could be as diverse as the universe itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The fictions, ranging from the mysterious \"Murksong\" to the epic \"Yasir,\" show a great variety of styles and themes. But it is in the dramatic text that we best see Khlebnikov's struggle to find a workable form for his vision. \u003ci\u003eThe Girl-God\u003c\/i\u003e, symbolist-inspired, is a mélange of stylistic shifts and impossible scene changes. In \u003ci\u003eThe Little Devil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Marquise des S.\u003c\/i\u003e, and the sardonic \u003ci\u003eMiss Death Makes a Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, Khlebnikov finally finds a stageable theatrical form, in a mixture of satire, colloquial speech, and poetic reflections on art and immortality. The dramatist reaches even higher in the supersagas \u003ci\u003eOtter's Children\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZangezi\u003c\/i\u003e, achieving a Wagnerian fusion of action, poetry, history, theory, and the musical rhythms of incantation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780674497931\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9780674497931","offer_id":51265528070,"sku":"9780674497931","price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/03f77643-e77e-4740-81f3-0b2d1f132ac5.jpg?v=1749011107","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/collected-works-of-velimir-khlebnikov-volume-ii-prose-plays-and-supersagas-von-ronald-vroon-hrsg","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}