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 (in Russian)

• 38 books by Kruchenykh
• 15+ books by Kruchenykh
• 6+ books by Kruchenykh
• with V., N. and D. Burliuk, Kamensky, Guro, Khlebnikov, et al., Sadok sudey [Садок Судей; Trap for Judges], St. Petersburg, 1910.
• with David Burliuk, Nikolai Burliuk, Wassily Kandinsky, Benedikt Livshits, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Victor Khlebnikov, Poshchechina obshchestvennomu vkusu. V zashchitu svobodnogo iskusstva. Stikhi, proza, stat’i [Пощёчина общественному вкусу. В защиту свободного искусства: Стихи, проза, статьи; A Slap in the Face of Public Taste: In Defense of Free Art: Poems, Prose, Essays], Moscow: Georgy L. Kuzmin, 1912, 114 pp.
• with Mikhail Larionov, Starinnaia liubov, 1912.
• Pobeda nad Solntsem [Победа над Cолнцем], Moscow, 1913, 28 pp. [1]
  • "Victory Over the Sun", trans. Ewa Bartos and Victoria Nes Kirby, The Drama Review 15:4 (Fall 1971), pp 106-124.
• Vozropshchem, 1913.
• Utinoe gniezdyshko durnykh slov [Утиное гнездышко... дурных слов... ], St. Petersburg, 1913. [2]
• Slovo kak takovoe, 1913.
• with Velimir Khlebnikov, Bukh liesinnyi [Бух лесинный], 1913. [3]
• Vzorvalʹ, 1913. [4]
• Igra v adu, 1914.
• Te li le, 1914. Poems, with illustrations by Olga Rozanova and Nikolai Kulbin.
• with Roman Jakobson (as Aliagrov), Zaumnaya gniga [Transrational Boog], Moscow, 1916. A collection of zaum poetry, with illustrations by Olga Rozanova. [5]
• Sdvigologiya russkogo stikha [Сдвигология русского стиха], Moscow, 1922, 46 pp. [6]
• Faktura slova [Фактура слова], Moscow, 1923, 21 pp.
• Apokalipsis v russkoy literature [Апокалипсис в русской литературе], Moscow, 1923, 46 pp. [7]
• Fonetika teatra [Фонетика театра], Moscow, 1923.
• LEF agitki Mayakovskogo, Aseeva, Tretyakova [ЛЕФ агитки Маяковского, Асеева, Третьякова], Moscow, 1925, 61 pp.
• Na borbu s chuliganstvom v literature [На борьбу с хулиганством в литературе], Moscow, 1926, 32 pp.
• Chetyre foneticheskikh romana [Четыре фонетических романа], Moscow, 1927.
• 15 let russkogo futurizma [15 лет русского футуризма], Moscow, 1928.

Collected writings

• Kukish proshliakam: Faktura slova, Sdvigologiia russkogo stikha, Apokalipsis v russkoi literature [Кукиш прошлякам], Moscow and Tallinn: Hylaea, 1992.
• Our Arrival: From the History of Russian Futurism, ed. R. V. Duganov, Moscow: RA, 1995, 191 pp.
• Stikhotvorenya, poemy, romany, opera [Стихотворения. Поэмы. Романы. Опера], St. Petersburg, 2001, 480 pp. [8]

On Kruchenykh

• http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3507-zhiv-kruchenyh-sb-st-m-izd-vserossiyskogo-soyuza-poetov-1925
• Vladimir Markov, Russian Futurism: A History, University of California Press, 1968, pp 41-48 (part of Hylaea), 126-132 (as cubo-futurist), 200-206, 334-350, 365-374, 428-429 (selected bibliography).
• Craig Dworkin, "To Destroy Language", Textual Practice 18:2 (2004), pp 185-197.
• Корнелия Ичин, "Вопрос фактуры: Взорваль Крученых", Russian Literature 65:1-3 (January-April 2009), pp 281-229. (in Russian) [9]
• http://www.ka2.ru/nauka/ziegler_1.html

See also

• Olga Rozanova
• Velimir Khlebnikov
• Russia#Avant-garde

External links

• http://www.ubu.com/sound/krucenych.html
• http://www.ubu.com/sound/russian_futurists.html
• http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=last_update&cid=268
• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/kruchenykh