Pavel Arsenev

Pavel Arsenev (Павел Арсеньев, 1986, Leningrad) is an artist, poet and theorist. He graduated in Theory of Literature from the Faculty of Philology and Arts at St. Petersburg State University (2010) and received a title Docteur ès lettres at Geneva University (2021). He is the author of six books of poetry and one scientific monograph. Arsenev is founding editor of Translit, a Petersburg journal for poetry and theory and a former member of the Poetry Actionism Laboratory (2008-12) with Roman Osminkin and Dina Gatina. He was the recipient of the Andrei Bely Literary Prize in 2012. He lives in Marseille.

Works

• To, chto ne ukladyvayetsya v golove. Stikhi [То, что не укладывается в голове. Стихи; That, Which Does Not Settle In the Head], St Petersburg: AnnaNova, 2005. [1] (Russian)

• Bestsvetnyye zelonyye idei yarostno spyat. Stikhi [Бесцветные зелёные идеи яростно спят. Стихи; Colorless Green Ideas Violently Slumber], Moscow & St Petersburg: Kraft, 2011. (Russian)

• Spasm of Accomodation, Berkeley: Commune Editions, 2017. Publisher. (English)

• Reported Speech, New York: Cicada Press, 2018. Publisher (English)

• Lo spasmo di alloggio, Bologna: Arcipelago Itaca Edizioni, 2021. Publisher (Italian)

• Literatura fakta i proyekt literaturnogo pozitivizma v Sovetskom Soyuze 1920-kh godov [Литература факта и проект литературного позитивизма в Советском Союзе 1920-х годов; The Literature of Fact and the Project of Literary Positivism in the Soviet Union of the 1920s], Novoye literaturnoye obozreniye (Новое литературное обозрение), 2023, 552 pp. Publisher. (Russian)

• Le russe comme non maternelle, Aix-en-Provence: Vanno Editions, 2024. Publisher (French)

• Russo lingua non materna, Macerata: Seri Edizioni, 2024. Publisher (Italian)

• Russisch als Nicht-Muttersprache , Berlin: Ciconia & Ciconia, 2025. Publisher (French)

• Writings in Translit

Literature

• Kevin M.F. Platt, "Pozhar v golove: Pavel Arsen'yev, esteticheskaya avtonomiya i «Laboratoriya poeticheskogo aktsionizma»" [Пожар в голове: Павел Арсеньев, эстетическая автономия и «Лаборатория поэтического акционизма»; Fire in the Head: Pavel Arseniev, Aesthetic Autonomy, and “The Laboratory of Poetic Actionism”], New Literary Review 145, 2017. (Russian)

• Schellens D.E.A. St. Petersburg als Palimpsest: subversive Geschichtskonstruktionen als Gegendiskurs in der Performance- und Aktionskunst des Laboratoriums für poetischen Aktionismus. In: Frischmuth A., Hoy T. & Färber C. (Eds.), Erinnerungsraum Osteuropa. Zur Poetik der Migration, Erinnerung und Geschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. no. 34. Berlin: Peter Lang. 173-189 (2018). (German)

• Oleg Gorelov, "'Posporiv o syurrealizme i sovremennoy poezii...': tekhnologii revolyutsionnogo syurrealizma P. Arsen'yeva" [«Поспорив о сюрреализме и современной поэзии…» технологии революционного сюрреализма П. Арсеньева; 'Having Discussed Surrealism and Contemporary Poetry...': Technologies of Revolutionary Surrealism of P. Arseniev], New Literary Review 170, 2021, pp 244-257. (Russian)

• Marijeta Bozovic, Avant-Garde Post–. Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union, Harvard University Press, 2023. Publisher. Pdf on libgen [2] (English)

• Stephanie Sandler, "The freest speech in Russia : poetry unbound, 1989-2022", Princeton University Press, 2024. [3]. Chapter 1 Politics: writing poems in a world of harm: Medvedev, Golynko, Arsenev [4] (English)

Links

• Home page
• Arsenev at Russian Wikipedia