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The King of Time, Velimir Khlebnikov, 1985, Selected Writings, 1st Ed., HCDJ

by Velimir Khlebnikov

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The King of Time : Poems, Fictions, Visions of the Future Velimir Khlebnikov 1985 Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov (9 November 1885 – 28 June 1922), was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it. Influential linguist Roman Jakobson hailed Khlebnikov as "the greatest world poet of our century" ... In his work, Khlebnikov experimented with the Russian language, drawing upon its roots to invent huge numbers of neologisms, and finding significance in the shapes and sounds of individual letters of Cyrillic. Along with Kruchenykh, he originated zaum, a language defying translation. He wrote futurological essays about such things as the possible evolution of mass communication ("The Radio of the Future") and transportation and housing ("Ourselves and Our Buildings"). He described a world in which people live and travel about in mobile glass cubicles that can attach themselves to skyscraper-like frameworks, and in which all human knowledge can be disseminated to the world by radio and displayed automatically on giant book-like displays at streetcorners. In 1912, he also published a method to predict historical events; one of the examples given was a "collapse of an empire in 1917". --Wikipedia First Edition First Printing Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. See photos for a better idea of item's actual condition. The Fine Print:

  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Year: 1985
  • Condition: Very Good

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