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"Semechki": Konstantin Vaginov's notebook
«Семечки»: записная книжка Константина Вагинова
Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934) was one of the most original writers of the 1920s and early 1930s, publishing four poetry collections and writing four novels. He was a member of various poetic and intellectual circles: the Zvuchashchaya Rachka (Sounding Shell) association of N. S. Gumilev, the K. K. Fofanov Ring of Poets, the circle of M. A. Kuzmin and M. M. Bakhtin, the ABDEM translation circle, and the OBERIU association. The writer’s archive contains a large notebook, most of which, entitled “Seeds,” is devoted to notes reflecting his everyday experience of interaction with the speech and textual environment. The language of the city street, tram conversations, and jokes heard in queues alternate on the pages of the notebook with quotations from posters, advertisements, and books, selected with a clear bias towards recording oral speech. "Semechki", although not conceived as an independent work, is endowed with obvious creative pragmatics: it is here that the poetic issues and literary technique important for Vaginov in the early 1930s are most radically and consistently developed: extreme forms of compatibility of discourses and styles, the inclusion of living speech in a literary work, and collage narration techniques. Despite the fact that the notebook has long been known to researchers of Konstantin Vaginov's work, it has only been published in fragments. This edition provides the first full publication of Konstantin Vaginov's notebook, accompanied by a number of articles, commentary, and illustrations.