It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed,
that readers only began to discover its strange and singular
brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in
"samizdat" and emigre publications. Some called it the last of the
Russian avant-garde, and others called it the first (and last)
instance of Absurdism in Russia; however difficult to classify, it
was OBERIU (from an acronym standing for The Union of Real Art),
and the pleasures of its poetry and prose are, with this volume, at
long last fully open to English-speaking readers.
This anthology includes the work of three writers, Alexander
Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky, who, between 1927
and 1930, made up the core of OBERIU, and of three others, Nikolai
Oleinikov, Leonid Lipavsky, and Yakov Druskin, who, although not
members of OBERIU, worked in the same vein. Skillfully translated
to preserve the weird charm of the originals, these poems and prose
pieces display all the hilarity and tragedy, the illogical action
and puppetlike violence and eroticism, and the hallucinatory
intensity that brought down the wrath of the Soviet censors. Today
they offer an uncanny reflection of the distorted reality they
reject.
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