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Russian Futurisms Past: Daniil Kharms and Anatoly Mariengof

Globus Books presents the next installment of the Literary Translation Round Table series. An award-winning poet and translator Alexander Cigale reads from Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings (NWUP World Classics, 2017) and Anatoly Mariengof's Cynics (unpublished). (in English.) The reading is followed by Q&A session. DANIIL KHARMS (1905–1942) was a major figure in twentieth-century Russian and Soviet literature. An enigmatic and genre-bending artist, he was among the most significant voices in what came to be known as the literature of Russian absurdism. His writing, which partakes of performance, narrative, poetry, and visual elements, was largely suppressed during his lifetime, which ended in a psychiatric ward where he starved to death during the siege of Leningrad. His work, which survived mostly in notebooks, inherited the mantle of Russian Futurism from such poets as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov. While he was known primarily as a children’s writer in his lifetime, he influenced several generations of post-war Russian writers and artists, including such movements as Russian Conceptualism and Minimalism. ANATOLY MARIENGOF (1897–1962) was part of the second and last generation of Russian Futurism and the movement that he founded, Imaginism, which for a time included his friend and major Soviet lyrical poet Sergei Esenin, set as its goal the pushing of metaphor to its absolute and extreme limits. Today, he is primarily known for the trilogy of novellas that he wrote in the late 1920s and only published abroad, his scandalous portrait of Esenin, Novel Without Lies, Cynics, and Man with a Shaved Head. ALEX CIGALE is an award-winning poet and translator with nearly 300 journal publications to his credit. His own poems in English appear in Colorado Review, The Common Online, and The Literary Review, and his translations from the Russian in Kenyon Review Online, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, PEN America, TriQuarterly, and World Literature in Translation. In 2015, he was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Literary Translation. His first full book, Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings, came out in the Northwestern University Press World Classics series in 2017. He has also published two chapbooks of his own poetry, Chronicle of Calamities and Greatest Hits (Poems, 1984-2009,) from Kattywompus Press. From 2011-2013 he was an Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and from 2016-2019 a Lecturer in Russian Literature at CUNY-Queens College. He is currently a Literature panelist at the New York State Council on the Arts and has guest-edited numerous journal issues, including most recently the Russian issues of the Atlanta Review and Trafika Europe. Globus Books is an independent bookstore serving San Francisco since 1971. It offers a wide-ranging stock of books on all things Russia. Globus is actively working with the libraries across the states on completing their holdings for Russian publications, both contemporary and out-of-print. The Globus Books team is well-known for its expertise in first editions of Russian literature, books on the Russian avant-garde, early imprints and travel and voyage books. Under the new management, Globus strives to serve the Bay Area, bridging gaps, continuing cultural traditions and giving voice to unrepresented communities in Russia and the US. Globus Books features several series of literary and cultural events on its YouTube Channel (   / globusbookssf  , including Literary Translation Round Table, History/Anthropology, Playtime and Storytime for children and more.