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Iliazda at the Birthday Party. Autobiographical Lecture, 1922 RU

Iliazda at the Birthday Party
Ilya Zdanevich
Iliazda at the Birthday Party Iliazda at the Birthday Party

 

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Realm
Russian
Author
Ilya Zdanevich
Title
Iliazda at the Birthday Party
Subtitle
Autobiographical Lecture, 1922
Paratexts

Introduction by: Sezgin Boynik

Place of Publication
Helsinki
Publisher
Rab-Rab Press
Date of Publication
2022
Print Run
500
Material Type
Book
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
96
OCLC Number
1396562945
ISBN
9789526938998
Language
English
Genre
Other
Editor
Sezgin Boynik
Translator
Michel Chevalier
Pāvels Smišlājevs
Ilya Zdanevich. Iliazda at the Birthday Party. Edited by Sezgin Boynik. Translated by Michel Chevalier, Pāvels Smišlājevs. Helsinki: Rab-Rab Press, 2022.
Description

The second volume of the bie bao series presents a eulogy entitled Iliazda at the Birthday Party, a pseudo-autobiographical lecture delivered by Ilya Zdanevich in Paris in 1922. It reports on Zdanevich's artistic and political adventures up until then. Along with an autobiography full of self-admiration, in this lecture Zdanevich gives an interpretation of his zaum dramas inspired by Freudianism, and humorously describes a colourful image of the Russian microcosm in Montparnasse. Additionally, this second volume also presents Iliazd's letter to Ardengo Soffici from 1964, where one can read, in the most unambiguous terms, about Zdanevich's positions against war, imperialism, and all forms of nationalism. Subtitled 50 Years of Russian Futurism, the letter to Soffici presents us with an altogether new Zdanevich - a 'fellow traveller' in both leftist and avant-garde circles. As well as the extended introduction and extensive annotations, the texts are further contextualised with Johanna Drucker's visual presentation of the birth of the Iliazd cuit.