The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian

by Velimir Khlebnikov

Book Overview

Khlebnikov, who died in 1922 at the age of thirty-six, is one of the great, untranslated Russian poets of this century. Hailed by his contemporaries and by later writers and scholars as the creative genius behind the Russian Futurist movement, Khlebnikov is famous more for his inaccessibility than for the excellence of what he actually produced. Even Russians are generally baffled by him. Now, in a powerful American rendition, we are given access...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674505158
• ISBN13: 9780674505155
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.5"