Notes of a commentator 9. Two unpublished futuristic poems about Odessa

Roman Timenchik*

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Abstract

The article presents two unpublished poems by Sergey Bobrov, which fit into the history of projection of the common European urban topos to a specific locus — the South Russian port. Among the poets who embarked on this task in the 1910s are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Gumilev, Konstantin Bolshakov, David Burliuk, young Odessa poets Sophia Pregel and Elizaveta Furman-Styrskaya. Futuristic poetics minimized the connection with poetic descriptions of the city common for Pushkin's time (used by “traditionalists” of the 1910s, such as Modest Druzhinin) and neglected the centuries-old Odessa mythological allusions (inevitable Odysseus recalled by Gumilyov).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)332-347
Number of pages16
JournalLiterary Fact
Volume2019
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Bibliographical note

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© 2019, Russian Academy of Sciences-A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature. All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • archival publications
  • Emile Verhaeren
  • Futuristic poetry
  • Ivan Bunin
  • Olga Rozanova
  • poems related to Odessa in the early 20th century
  • Sergey Bobrov
  • vorticism

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