I Live i See
Author | : Vsevolod Nekrasov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 193325498X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781933254982 |
Rating | : 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: I Live I See presents a comprehensive survey of the work of Vsevolod Nekrasov (1934-1999), the Soviet literary underground's foremost minimalist. Exploring urban, rural, and purely linguistic environs with an economy of lyrical means and a dark sense of humor, Nekrasov's groundbreaking early poems rupture the stultified language of Soviet cliché while his later work tackles the excesses of the new Russian order. I Live I See is a testament to Nekrasov's lifelong conviction that art can not only withstand, but undermine oppression. "Nekrasov's artistic method is a sort of critique of poetic reason, only the result of the critique is poetry; the dissected, devalued verse line is reborn -- into lyric." -- Vladislav Kulakov