OBERIU
Subtitle: an anthology of Russian absurdism
By: edited by Eugene Ostashevsky.
Contributors: Ostashevsky, Eugene.; Yankelevich, Matvei.; Epstein, Thomas, 1954-; Bernstein, Ilya.; Turovskaya, Genya.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Obėriu -- Literary collections; Russian literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English; Absurd (Philosophy) -- Literary collections; Literature, Experimental -- Soviet Union
Genres: Translations into English.; Literary collections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich with contributions by Thomas Epstein, Ilya Bernstein, and Genya Turovskaya"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Kuprianov and Natasha ; I regret that I'm not a beast ; Frother ; A certain quantity of  conversations, or the completely altered nightbook ; Elegy ; Where. When / Alexander Vvedensky; title: The story of Sdygr Appr ; The ewe ; Thing ; The measure of things ; The saber ; Notnow ; To ring to fly (third cisfinite logic) ; The werld ; An evening song to she who exists by my name ; The daughter of Patruliov ; Before coming to see you ; The constancy of dirt and joy ; An American story ; Fenorov in America ; Kolpakov, braggart ; Anton Antonovich shaved off his beard ; The career of Ivan Yakovlevich Antonov ; Holiday ; The street incident ; On the death of Kazimir Malevich ; Fat man ; Death of a little old man ; The new mountain climbers ; The blue notebook ; Man fell asleep ; A magazine article ; A man once walked out of his house ; How I was visited by messengers ; Passacaglia 1 ; Maltonius Olbren ; The four-legged crow ; The adventure of katerpillar / Daniil Kharms; title: The signs of the zodiac go dark ; The temptation ; The triumph of agriculture ; The battle of elephants ; The test of the will ; The poem of rain ; Time / Nikolai Zabolotsky; title: In service of science ; Gluttony : a ballad ; To a lady unwilling to renounce consumption of meat from Cherkassy ; An epistle to a theatrical actress ; For the recovery of Heinrich ; Charles Darwin ; The fly ; Zeros / Nikolai Oleinikov; title: Water tractatus / Leonid Lipavsky; title: Death ; Letter to Kharms ; The end of the world / Yakov Druskin.