The King of Time - Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian

About the author

Paul Schmidt, translator of Rimbaud and Mayakovsky among others, was Director of the Khlebnikov Translation Project, Dia Art Foundation.Charlotte Douglas, an art historian who specializes in the Russian avant-garde, is Professor Emerita of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University.

Summary

Velimir Khlebnikov is one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century. Hailed by contemporaries and by later scholars as the creative genius behind the Russian Futurist movement, Khlebnikov is famous for his inaccessibility. Now, in a powerful American rendition, we are given access to his strange and beautiful world.

Product details

• Authors: Velimir Khlebnikov, Velmir Khlebnikov
• Assisted by: Charlotte Douglas (Editor), P. Schmidt (Translation), Paul Schmidt (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1990
• EAN: 9780674505162
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50516-2
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 140 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 474 g
• Illustrations: 11 halftones
• Series: Selected Writings of the Russi; Selected Writings of the Russi
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies