OBERIU’s Absurd Object and the Poetics of Daniil Kharms by Camelia Dinu

“…The first part of the study analyzes the OBĖRIU manifesto and its most important concepts: ‘real art’, ‘the artistic word’, and ‘the artistic object’, and relates them to the literature of the absurd as well as some elements related to the surrealist vision. …”
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Sui giochi di potere dell’avanguardia: Velimir Chlebnikov, Daniil Charms e altri by Lada Panova

“…Did Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Maiakovskii, Daniil Kharms indeed pronounced a “New First Unexpected” word, as they claimed in their manifestos? On a closer look it turns out that their truly innovative feature consists not in their artistic output but rather in their self-promotion strategies resulting in power games in the field of Russian literature, in a sado-masochistic contract with the reader, and, last but not least, in the “How-to-kill-a-great predecessor” topos. …”
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