Article

Name: Nikolay Aseev: From Publications in Print Media of the Far East (1918–1920)

Authors: E. V. Kapinos, I. E. Loshchilov

Institute of Philology SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)

Abstract:

The publication includes 3 texts of Nikolay Aseev: two short novels “About human condolence” (1918) and “The pointless story” (1919), and the article “Name exchange” (1920). They were published once in the unpopular and hard-to-get magazines “The Great Оcean”, “Bellower”, “Creativity” and never again, – like many other Aseev’s works, written in the Far Eastern period. However, they represent the groundbreaking poetics, its basics were laid in the age of “Centrifuge”, which the poet dishonored, assumed the mantle of “the back-seat role by Mayakovskiy” (M. L. Gasparov).

The short novel “About human condolence” incorporated the traumatic experience of the witness and the party involved in the civil war, the article “Name exchange” and “The pointless story” contains the detailed reflections, related to crisis events in language and literature.

The publication is provided with the opening clause with the summary about N. Aseev and the Far Eastern period of his novelism (late 1917 – January 1922). There are also some contexts reviewed, crucial for comprehension of the published works. “The pointless story” and “Name exchange” are compared to dissertations, articles and essays of V. Khlebnikov, S. Esenin, O. Mandelstam, Yu. Tynyanov.

Keywords: avant-garde, Far Eastern avant-garde, “Centrifuge”, N. Aseev, S. Tretyakov, “Creativity”, “Bellower”, magazine, “Great Ocean” magazine, prose of futurists

Bibliography:

[Anonymous] Ot redaktsii. Biryuch, 1920, p. 3. (in Russ.)

[Anonymous] Roman o Mayakovskom. Literaturnaya gazeta [Literary newspaper], 1935, no. 70 (561), December 20, p. 6. (in Russ.)

Aseev N. N. Oktyabr’ na Dal’nem. Novyj Lef [New LEF], 1927, no. 8–9, p. 38–49. (in Russ.)

Aseev N. N. Zhizn’ slova. Novyj mir [The New World], 1951, no. 4, p. 176– 192. (in Russ.)

Aseev N. N. Zor [Zor]. Moscow, Liren’ Publ., 1914, 16 p. [Lithography]. (in Russ.)

Aseev N. Ukhvat yazyka. Pristavki. In: Vremennik [Annals]. Moscow, [Tipo-litografiya Tovarishhestva I. N. Kushnerev i K°], 1917, p. 5. (in Russ.)

Aseev N., Petnikov G. Letorej: Kniga stikhov [Letorej, The Book of poems]. Moscow, Liren’ Publ., 1915, 32 p. (in Russ.)

Aseev N. N. Bomba [The Bomb]. Stikhi. Vladivostok, Dal’nevostochnaya tribuna Publ., 1921, 62 p. (in Russ.)

Aseev N. N. Rodoslovnaya poezii [The Genealogy of poetry]. Comp. A. M. Kryukova, S. S. Lesnevskiy, intr. by L. A. Ozerov, comment. by A. M. Kryukova. Moscow, Sovetskij pisatel’ Publ., 1990, 557 p. (in Russ.)

Gasparov M. L. Semen Kirsanov, znamenosec sovetskogo formalizma. In: Kirsanov S. I. Stikhotvoreniya i poemy [Poems and long poems]. St. Petersburg, Akademicheskij proekt Publ., 2006, p. 5–18. (Series: Novaya biblioteka poeta) (in Russ.)

Gasparov M. L. Vospominaniya o S. P. Bobrove. In: Blokovskij sbornik XII [Studies of A. Block]. Tartu, IC-Garant, 1993, p. 179–195. (in Russ.)

Gin Ya. I. O “poeticheskoj filologii”. In: Literaturnyj process i problemy literaturnoj kul’tury: Materialy dlya obsuzhdeniya [The Literary Process and the Problems of Literary Culture: Discussion Materials]. Tallinn, 1988, p. 20–22. (in Russ.)

Gogol N. V. Collected works. In 14 vols. Moscow, Leningrad, AS USSR Publ., 1951, vol. 6, 923 p. (in Russ.)

Khlebnikov V. V. Collected works. In 6 vols. Moscow, Nasledie Publ., 2000, vol. 1, 544 p. (in Russ.)

Khlebnikov V. V. Collected works. In 6 vols. Moscow, Nasledie Publ., 2000, vol. 1, 544 p. (in Russ.)

Kirillova E. O. Russkaya futuristicheskaya poeziya na Dal’nem Vostoke 1917–1922 gg.: idejno-hudozhestvennye iskaniya, poeticheskie imena [Russian futuristic poetry in the Far East 1917–1922: ideological and artistic searches, poetic names]. Diss. Cand. Philol. Sci. Vladivostok, 2007, 258 p. (in Russ.)

Kirillova E. O. Dal’nevostochnaya gavan’ russkogo futurizma. Kniga pervaya. Modernistskie techeniya v literature Dal’nego Vostoka Rossii 1917– 1922 gg. (Poeticheskie imena, idejno-hudozhestvennye iskaniya) [Far Eastern harbor of Russian futurism. Book one. Modernist trends in the literature of the Russian Far East 1917–1922 (Poetic names, ideological and artistic searches)]. Monograph. Vladivostok, Far East Federal Publ., 2011, 636 p. (in Russ.)

Krusanov A. V. Russkij avangard: 1907–1932 (Istoricheskij obzor) [Russian Avant-garde: 1907–1932 (Historical overview)]. In 3 vols. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2003, vol. 2, book 2, 608 p. (in Russ.)

Russkaya poeziya “serebryanogo veka”, 1890–1917 [Russian poetry of the Silver Age, 1890–1917]. The Anthology. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1993, 784 p. (in Russ.)

Russkie sovetskie pisateli. Poety [Russian Soviet writers. Poets]. Bibliographic Index. Moscow, Kniga, 1978, vol. 2: Aseev – Bedny, 536 p. (in Russ.)

Sologub F. K. Collected works. St. Petersburg, Shipovnik Publ., 1911, vol. 10, 230 p. (in Russ.)

Tretyakov S. Biryuch. Biryuch, 1920, p. 3. (in Russ.)

Ustinov A., Loshchilov I. Pesni i legendy budetlyanskogo skifstva: Nikolaj Aseev v zhurnale «Protalinka». Detskie chteniya [Studies in Literature for Children], 2018, no. 2 (014), p. 150–209. (in Russ.)

Vospominaniya o Nikolae Aseeve [Memories about Nikolai Aseev]. Comp. K. M. Aseeva, O. G. Petrovskaya. Moscow, Sovetskij pisatel’ Publ., 1980, 303 p. (in Russ.)