QUEST FOR A NEW WORD IN THE AVANT-GUARDE: FROM ALEKSEY KRUCHENYKH’S «TRANSRATIONAL» WORD TO GENNADIY AIGI’S «IOANNIC» WORD


2019. № 1 (19), 122-129

Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract:

The article deals with the analysis of the transfer of basic poetic and linguistic experiment avant-garde’s principles to the neo-avantgarde aesthetic program. The article investigates the reception of the avant-garde search for a new word and for a new language in the neo-avantgarde on the material of A. Kruchenykh’s and G. Aigi’s texts. The key features of the experiment with the word, characteristic for the three stages of the avant-garde development such as early avant-garde of the 1910s, OBERIU and neoavant-garde, are revealed in the aspect of their reception in Aigi’s texts. The aiming to overcome the boundaries between theory and practice in the early avant-garde is further developed in the tendency to synthesize aesthetic reflection and its poetic realization in the neo-avantgarde, which allows attributing the key Kruchenykh’s and Aigi’s texts to the hybrid genre of the poetic text-manifesto.