Article

Name: Doiche Bukh: some observations on multilingual poetry

Authors: A. Morse

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA

Abstract: 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 work.

Keywords: Vsevolod Nekrasov, Doiche Bukh, multilingual, macaronic poetry, zaum

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