This is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 1921–1927. Zenithism’s founder Ljubomir Micić envisioned the movement as a fusion of futurism, dada, constructivism, expressionism, and proto-surrealism, driven by what he called the “barbarogenius.” A hallmark of the movement was its embrace of cross-genre writing, from Ljubomir Micić’s ciné-poem Rescue Vehicle and Branko Ve Poljanski’s lyric novel 77 Suicides to MID’s lyric philosophic treatise The Sexual Equilibrium of Money. The zenithists promoted their ideas through their journal Zenit and press Biblioteka Zenit. Reaching American readers for the first time, this anthology sheds light on an untapped chapter in European modernism ideal for the general and academic reader alike.
Spis treści
Acknowledgments
List of Translators
List of Illustrations
Pronunciation Guide
Introduction: You Have to Be a Zenithist
The Barbarians are Coming, or a Savage Rhythm
Introduction
Man and Art (February 1921), Ljubomir Micić
The Manifesto of Zenithism (June 1921), Ljubomir Micić, Yvan Goll, and Boško Tokin
The Spirit of Zenithism (September 1921), Ljubomir Micić
The Barbarogenius, the Balkanization of Europe, and Cultural Nihilism
Introduction
Zenith Manifesto 1922 (February 1922), Ljubomir Micić
Zenithism as the Balkan Totalizer of New Life and New Art (February 1923), Ljubomir Micić
Effect on Defect (1923), Marijan Mikac
in the name of zenithism [foreword], Ljubomir Micić
here
360 ÷ 180 = 0
joyous lament
zenith—specter
a riot of atoms
rush up the rope
a poem for the twentieth dog
a prayer of the blessed curse
a fanatic’s nights of love
bachelor tax
against gossips
man’s tango with a flea
the guard on the rhine predicts
effect on defect
from Archipenko: New Plastics (September 1923)
Toward Opticoplastics, Ljubomir Micić
Nemo propheta in patria (February 1924), Various anonymous
Zenithosophy: or the Energetics of Creative Zenithism (October 1924), Ljubomir Micić
Antisocial Art Needs to be Destroyed (December 1924), Ljubomir Micić
The New Art (December 1924), Ljubomir Micić
from The Monkey Phenomenon (1925)
The New Zenithist Art, Marijan Mikac
Airplane without an Engine (1925), Ljubomir Micić
Barbarism as Culture (November–December 1925), Risto Ratković
Anti-Europe (1926), Ljubomir Micić
Beyond-Sense and Anti-Europe
the barbarogenius
barbarian omelet
hey slavs
syphon—soda—blood
radio in the balkans
bim bam boom
made in england
avala, a tomb in the sky
oh, balkan cavavan
slender snakes blossom
Typogram (April 1926), Ljubomir Micić
Zenithism through the Prism of Marxism (December 1926), Dr. M. Rasinov (Ljubomir Micić)
The First Road of the Barbarogenius: Cinépoetry and the Radio-Film
Introduction
Cinema Poems (October 1920), Boško Tokin
Paris Burns (October 1921), Yvan Goll
Film and the Future of Humanity (December 1921), Branko Ve Poljanski
Shimmy at the Latin Quarter Graveyard (March 1922), Ljubomir Micić
Damn Your Hundred Gods (Rescue Car) (October 1922), Ljubomir Micić
Prologue by a Madman Before a Legion of Exceptionally Wise Flies
Categorical Imperative of the Zenithist School of Poetry
Zenithism: Second Attack of the Barbarians
Zenithist Barbarogenics in 30 Acts
from Radio-Film and the Zenithist Vertical of the Spirit (April 1923), Ljubomir Micić
The Second Road of the Barbarogenius: The Hybrid Novel, Prose Poetry, and the Serpentinella
Introduction
Here I Am! (January 1921), Branko Ve Poljanski (as Virgil Poljanski)
Under the Sign of the Circle (February 1921), Branko Ve Poljanski
A Lasso around the Holy Mother’s Neck (March 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski
The Beauty of a Horse and the Face of Queen Zita (March 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski
Dada Causal Dada (May 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski
Codes of the Dada-Jok State (May 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski
33 Seconds (May 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski
2 ÷ 2 = 1 (July–August 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski
Radiograms (1922), Branko Ve Poljanski
77 Suicides (1923), Branko Ve Poljanski
Panic under the Sun (1924), Branko Ve Poljanski
No!
C’mon, Now! [foreword], Ljubomir Micić
Manifesto
Alarm
On Train Tracks
Longing
At the Hair Salon
Graveyard Express
Poem #13
Trip to Brazil
Tick-Tock like a Crab in a Tailcoat
Blind Man Number 52
Arise
TB
Sing Sing We Ride the Himalayas
You, Belgrade, You
God Beefsteak
Joyous Poem
Topsy-Turvy (1926), Branko Ve Poljanski
S.O.S.
Manifesto
Contraidioticon
Eros
300, 000 Punches per Second
The Panopticon Passes through a Mirror
The Laughter of Rifles
A Steamboat in the Appendix
Nihilon
Whistling Face
Mariner’s Bell
You Have Beautiful Eyes, Lucia
Dusk
Poem About Him
The Third Road of the Barbarogenius: Conceptual Writing
Introduction
The Sexual Equilibrium of Money (1925), MID
The Metaphysics of Nothing (1926), MID
Form Devours the Spirit [I] (April 1926), MID
Form Devours the Spirit [II] (May 1926), MID
A Tobacconist in Literature (November 15, 1925), Anonymous
Review of The Sexual Equilibrium of Money (April 1926), Anonymous
Review of The Metaphysics of Nothing (May 1926), Anonymous
The Barbarogenius at the Gates: Zenithist Theater, Soirées, and Public Interventions
Introduction
Zenithist Theater (Zagreb, December 16, 1922), Anonymous
The First Zenithist Soirée (Belgrade, January 3, 1923), Anonymous
The Second Zenithist Soirée (Zagreb, January 31, 1923), Anonymous
A Zenithist Soirée by Marijan Mikac (Petrinja, August 18, 1923), Anonymous
A Zenithist Evening of Sensation (April 1925), Branko Ve Poljanski
The Marinetti and Poljanski Dialogue (November–December 1925), Branko Ve Poljanski
Rabindranath Tagore and the Zenithist Protests (December 1926), Anonymous
Open Letter to Rabindranath Tagore (December 1926), Ljubomir Micić, and Branko Ve Poljanski
The Nadir of Zenithism
Introduction
The Red Rooster (1927), Branko Ve Poljanski
Dogs Bark and Poets Sing
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Afterword: The Zenithist Legacy
Bibliography
Index
O autorze
Steven Teref’s translations include Ana Ristović’s Directions for Use, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Best Translated Book Award, and the National Translation Award, and Novica Tadić’s Assembly. His translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Aufgabe, 6×6, and elsewhere. He is currently translating the Yugoslav avant-garde writers Branko Ve Poljanski and MID. He co-founded with Maja Teref and edited the journal Ricochet Review. Steven is the author of Foreign Object, Pleasure Objects Teaser, and The Authentic Counterfeit. He is Co-Chief Copy Editor for Asymptote.Więcej książek elektronicznych tego samego autora (ów) / Redaktor
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