| Titre | Benedikt Livšic, poète hyléen | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Claude Lanne | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 30, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1989 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 107-117 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Jean-Claude Lanne, Benedikt Livshits, an Нуlean poet.
В. Livshits is the least known of poets belonging to the "Cubo-Futurist" group. Yet, his poetry and his poetic theory are characterized by their fundamental originality and utmost intransigence. His whole poetic work, since the first collection Fleita Marsiia (Marsyas' flute, 1911) till Krotonskii polderi (Midday at Crotone, 1928) is a continuous research of formal perfection. Applied to the art of Livshits, the term "Hylean" is fairly suitable for a style that hesitates between symbolism and neo-classicism through the most extremist vanguardism noticeable in the Futurist collection Volch'e solntse (Sun of wolves, 1914). At this stage of his poetic itinerary, Livshits appears as the most radical of "futurians". Adjusting the liberation of poetical speech to the pictorial model, he produces hermetic poems of perfect workmanship that defy all efforts at interpretation. With the poems published in Volch'e solntse, the reader finds himself - paradoxically - in the centre of the highly respected tradition of "formal poetry". It is nevertheless certain that the poetry of Livshits constitutes an extension of the prestigious line of modern European poetry, particularly that of the French poets (Rimbaud, Mallarmé). The prose text "Liudi v peizazhe" (People in a landscape), placed at the end of the collection, could be considered as a daring effort to build Futurist prose, a true sample of syntactic zaum. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1989_num_30_1_2178 |
