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The article discusses two interesting features of the Russian avant-garde. The first one is the use of the word baraban (drum), introduced in the collection Vzial: Baraban futuristov (1915) and since that time a part of the futurist lexicon, particularly that of Maiakovskii. Vasilii Kamenskii created the word farabanst, a combination of baraban and futurist. The second remarkable feature is the frequent...
Contrary to Asia and the East, Europe and the West are rather negative themes in the work of Velimir Khlebnikov. For instance, Khlebnikovʼs anti-German position becomes apparent in the frequently elaborated opposition slavʼ/nemʼ; in his language experiments Khlebnikov avoided non-Slavic words. However, apart from being a poet, Khlebnikov had a rationalistic, scientific point of view, and for that...
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