| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1104440 | Russian Literature | 2006 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The article discusses Kharms's poem ‘On the Occasion of the Death of Kazimir Malevich’ (1934) in its correspondence to late Russian avant-garde painting in a wider interdisciplinary approach. Suggestive semantic structure, intertextual links and number symbolism reveal the main features of Kharms's poetics (inversion of meanings, oxymoron, contamination and the principle of discontinuity). The analysis of the text discloses some hidden levels of its signification (anagram of the name PETER) and contains indications of Malevich's cosmological utopia and archaic schemes of sacrifice that turn its graveside oration into funeral rhetorics of the époque in general.
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