some observations on multilingual poetry
This article examines the macaronic Russian-German poems
published in Vsevolod Nekrasov’s Doiche Bukh (1998). In addition to exploring
the professional and aesthetic motivations for Nekrasov’s use of German at this
point in his writing career, the article strives to read these poems in the context
of Nekrasov’s work as a whole. The use of a foreign language, moreover one
that the poet did not know well, would seem to go against a poetics so rooted
in the minimal nuances of Nekrasov’s native tongue. And yet, when read in
the context of both Nekrasov’s other poetry and his polemical articles, the
multilingual experimentation of Doiche Bukh turns out to be working toward
the same aesthetic and polemical ends as Nekrasov’s purely Russian-language
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