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Traces of Italian Futurism in Russian Experimental Prose. The Case of V. Šeršenevič and L. Zak
Get PDFAt the end of 1913, the Moscow-based Futurist group Mezzanine of Poetry (Mezonin Poėzii) published the almanac Krematorij Zdravomysli-ja [The Crematorium of the Common Sense]. The almanac came out right before the group separated and thus represents its legacy. Gathering the works of fourteen poets of the Mezza-nine, this voluminous publication stands out for its attempt – set down by the two theoretical leaders of the group: Vadim Šeršenevič (1893-1942) and Lev Zak (1892-1980, who signed his works as Chrisanf and as M. Rossi-janskij) – to shape a genre of experi-mental prose that would reflect the vividness and innovation of the poet-ic language of Russian Futurism. The present paper analyses the stylistic features of three prose works in the almanac: two excerpts from Šeršene-vič’s unfinished novel Introdukcija samoubijcy [The Suicide’s Prelude] and L. Zak’s short story Knjažna Karakaticeva [Princess Cuttlefish]. It does so in reference to Marinetti’s statements and to Šeršenevič and Zak’s theoretical writings on prose, included in the same almanac. Prose is one of the least investigated liter-ary forms in Futurism Studies. Thus, the analysis deals mostly with prima-ry sources and with the documents collected by V. Markov and V.P. Lapšin. The aim is to shed light on the continuity in the development of Ital-ian and Russian Futurist experimental prose and, specifically, to read the works of Šeršenevič and Zak from a new comparative perspective, inves-tigating the extent to which they used the theoretical principles set down by Italian Futurism
Velimir Khlebnikov’s Futurist Essays: A Hybrid Genre?
No full textVelimir Khlebnikov is one of the most renowned and idiosyncratic Russian authors of the early twentieth century. The writer has been largely associated with his experimental poetry, with the effect that particular aspects such as his ‘transrational’ language (zaum’) and neologisms stand for Khlebnikov’s entire literary production. However, Khlebnikov did not only write poetry, but also a stream of prose works, which have been overshadowed by his poetic and theatrical writings. Within the author’s corpus, these essays, dialogues, appeals, declarations and manifestos are considered to be marginal and are often disregarded, even though they constitute a significant aspect of his literary œuvre to which the poet devoted much time throughout his literary career. The aim of my contribution here is to investigate Khlebnikov’s essays as a group of texts characterized by a purpose that was not meant to be ‘artistic’ or ‘literary’ in the first place but should still be paid due consideration because of their outstanding rôle in the author’s poetic and aesthetic system
Velimir Chlebnikov. Due brevi prose del periodo tardo: "Oktjabr' na neve" e "Nikto ne budet otricat'..." (1918)
No full textNegli ultimi decenni Velimir Chlebnikov (1885 – 1922), uno tra più noti poeti del Novecento russo che generalmente viene considerato un esponente dell'avanguardia futurista, è stato oggetto di una grandissima attenzione, non solo riservata al ruolo di primus inter pares che l'autore occupò all'interno della corrente cubofuturista, ma soprattutto alla sua produzione poetica e alle sue teorie logopoietiche (slovotvorčestvo, korneslovie, zaum’...). Con il presente contributo, in cui proponiamo la traduzione inedita in italiano delle brevi opere in prosa narrativa Oktjabr’ na Neve (1918) e Nikto ne budet otricat’... (1918), intendiamo soffermarci su una parte della produzione letteraria chlebnikoviana che ad oggi non ha ricevuto la dovuta attenzione né in Italia, né a livello internazionale. Ad esclusione di sporadici casi, uno dei quali compare sul celeberrimo Poesie di Chlebnikov di A. Ripellino, la prosa di Chlebnikov non è stata sostanzialmente mai tradotta in italiano.
Le prove di traduzione saranno corredate da una nota del traduttore in cui esporremo una riflessione a partire da alcune osservazioni di Ju. Tynjanov, T. Gric e R. Duganov; inoltre, verranno messe in evidenza le particolarità stilistiche e formali della prosa di Velimir Chlebnikov, nonché le problematiche che comportano nella traduzione
Books to the Masses! An Investigation of Russian WWI ‘Dime Stories’
Get PDFThe impact of WWI on Russian society was immediately disruptive. This effect affected every sphere of social and cultural environs. Although previous research has established that WWI was a major topic of the cultural discourse of that time, the way in which WWI literature, and in particular consumer literature, contributed to the representation of war among the mass population deserves further research. By drawing a parallel with the phenomenon of the American dime novel, this study is grounded on the analysis of the style, content, structure, and even of the ‘mere’ appearance of some 1914–1916 ‘mass’ publications aimed at the broader public. The goal of this article, therefore, is to stimulate a consistent re-evaluation of this strand of ‘consumer’ war literature and to focus on its importance as a culturological tool to have a better understanding of the cultural environment of that time
La 'nechudožestvennaja proza' di Velimir Chlebnikov : forme dichiarative, saggi e dialoghi
No full textNegli ultimi decenni Velimir Chlebnikov, uno tra più noti poeti del Novecento russo che generalmente viene considerato un esponente dell'avanguardia futurista, è stato oggetto di una grandissima attenzione, non solo riservata al ruolo di primus inter pares che l'autore rivestì all'interno della corrente cubofuturista, ma soprattutto alla sua opera poetica e alle sue teorie logopoietiche. Il presente lavoro si prefigge l’obiettivo di indagare nel dettaglio le caratteristiche formali e di genere letterario di alcune opere riconducibili alla categoria della cosiddetta nechudožestvennaja proza, una parte della produzione del poeta che ad oggi non ha ricevuto la dovuta attenzione. Nell’insieme della corposa produzione in prosa di V. Chlebnikov, messa indiscutibilmente in ombra dall’attenzione riservata a quella poetica e drammaturgica, gli ambiti di saggistica, dialoghi e forme dichiarative (manifesti, appelli e generi simili) sono stati e continuano ad essere trattati perlopiù tangenzialmente, quando non del tutto trascurati: essi costituiscono una porzione significativa del corpus chlebnikoviano, alla quale l’autore si dedicò costantemente per tutto l’arco della sua carriera
Misurare le leggi del tempo: considerazioni preliminari su "Vremja – mera mira" di V. Chlebnikov
No full textVelimir Khlebnikov 1922-2022. One Hundred Years of a Myth [Introduction]
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Античность в авангарде: о диалогах Велимира Хлебникова
Get PDF[Antichnost' v avangarde: o dialogakh V. Khlebnikova] This article examines the works that Khlebnikov composed in a dialogical form. Except for a single case, which has been the subject of a thorough critical study, no other text belonging to this group has been examined with the same attention. The scarcity of scholarly sources can be justified by the small number of Khlebnikov’s dialogues. The purpose of this paper is therefore to shed light on his dialogic works: these texts remain in the background of our
comprehension of Khlebnikov, despite their extraordinary richness
Velimir Chlebnikov, My i doma <1914-1915>: lo “spettro” di una visione utopica nell’architettura russa d’avanguardia
Get PDFL'obiettivo del presente intervento è verificare l’esistenza di una relazione tra alcune delle ricerche sperimentali in campo architettonico elaborate nell'Unione Sovietica degli anni Venti, le cui manifestazioni più estreme sfociano in utopia o addirittura nella fantascienza, e l'opera di Velimir Chlebnikov, poeta avanguardista generalmente ascritto al gruppo dei cubo-futuristi. Ci serviamo del termine “spettro” in una sua accezione metaforica, mutuata dall’etimologia (dal lat. Specĕre, “guardare, vedere”), per mostrare da un lato come il clima culturale dell'epoca abbia favorito le reciproche influenze tra arti apparentemente così distanti, dall'altro come il trionfo della superficie trasparente e del volume puro e i progetti di “città volanti” dei costruttivisti si intreccino con la particolare ricerca poetica chlebnikoviana, che manifesta la necessità di un radicale mutamento del tessuto architettonico della città
Internal curing of concrete with presaturated lightweight aggregates: a preliminary investigation
No full textAdvances in concrete technology have led to a widespread use of High Performance Concretes (HPC) with a low water/binder ratio. Those concretes are prone to early age cracking because of the increased autogenous shrinkage, which is normally insignificant for w/b greater than 0.4 and appears mostly in the first days after setting, when the concrete has not reached its full tensile strength, and so it’s one of the principal causes of early age cracking impairing the structure durability.
This study aims at quantifying the efficiency of Internal Curing with pre-saturated Light Weight Aggregates (LWA) on the reduction of autogenous shrinkage in HPC. A standard mixture (w/c = 0.3) was tested together with an Internal Cured one, in which a fraction of the normal weight aggregate was replaced by a pre-wetted LWA, to evaluate the differences in the mechanical properties (compressive and tensile strength, elastic modulus) and shrinkage behavior (plastic, autogenous, drying free and restrained shrinkage). In face of a slight decrease of the strength (about 9%) which did not compromise the structural use of the concrete, the pre-wetted LWA led to a 30% decrease of autogenous shrinkage, and a roughly 50% reduction in cracking potential
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