Aleksei Kruchenykh
Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh; Kruchonykh; Kruchyonykh (Алексе́й Елисе́евич Кручёных). Born 1886. , a well-known poet of the Russian "Silver Age", was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum. Kruchenykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun, with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich. He married Olga Rozanova, an avant-garde artist, in 1912. Died 1968.
Literature
- By Kruchenykh
- with Roman Jakobson (as Aliagrov), Zaumnaya gniga [Transrational Boog], Moscow, 1916. A collection of zaum poetry, with illustrations by Olga Rozanova. (in Russian)
- Сдвигология русского стиха, Moscow, 1922, 46 pp. (in Russian)
- Фактура слова [Faktura slova], Moscow, 1923, 21 pp. (in Russian)
- Апокалипсис в русской литературе, Moscow, 1923, 46 pp. (in Russian)
- ЛЕФ агитки Маяковского, Асеева, Третьякова [LEF agitki], Moscow, 1925, 61 pp. (in Russian)
- На борьбу с хулиганством в литературе [Na borbu s chuliganstvom v literature], Moscow, 1926, 32 pp. (in Russian)
- Our Arrival: From the History of Russian Futurism, ed. R. V. Duganov, Moscow: RA, 1995, 191 pp.
- Стихотворения. Поэмы. Романы. Опера, St. Petersburg, 2001, 480 pp. (in Russian)
- On Kruchenykh
- Craig Dworkin, "To Destroy Language", Textual Practice 18(2), 2004, pp 185-197.