Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of LeninÂ’s Language

Boynik, Sezgin

Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin’s revolutionary language. The book includes the Russian Formalists’ (Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov, Boris Tomashevsky, Lev Yakubinsky, and Boris Kazansky) most ‘political’ texts, first published in 1924 in the journal of the Left Front of the Arts (edited by Mayakovsky). Together with this collection, the publication also includes Futurist poet Alexei Kruchenykh’s Devices of Lenin’s Speech, from 1925.

Edited and introduced by Sezgin Boynik, afterwords by Darko Suvin. Translations from Russian by Thomas Campbell and Mikko Viljanen. Designed by Ott Kagovere.

Kustantaja: Rab-Rab Press
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9789529411382
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2022
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): UK1