{"product_id":"berlin-khaltura-1922","title":"Berlin Khaltura 1922","description":"\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eThe sixth volume of the \u003cstrong\u003ebie bao series\u003c\/strong\u003e revolves around Ilya Zdanevich’s account of his visit to Berlin at the end of 1922. The report offers a scathing takedown of Russian writers whom he accuses of commodifying and watering down the avant-garde discoveries. Zdanevich dismisses these opportunist writers as ‘khaltura’ writers — using a re-emerged Russian word designating hackwork, sloppiness, or simply kitsch art. Fascinating to anyone interested in the fate of the avant-garde in exile, Zdanevich Berlin’s report is translated and introduced by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/books\/5824.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRoman Utkin\u003c\/a\u003e, the author of a monograph on Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe volume also includes letters sent by Viktor Shklovsky to Zdanevich, whom he subsequently hosted in Berlin. Translated and introduced by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/431905-Jyrki-Siukonen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJyrki Siukonen\u003c\/a\u003e, these documents offer a glimpse into the many roads taken by the postrevolutionary avant-garde in Western Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAlongside these texts, this volume also presents Zdanevich’s 1914 words-in-freedom poem \u003cem\u003egaROland\u003c\/em\u003e. Translated and introduced by the poet \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/liberalstudies.nyu.edu\/about\/faculty-listing\/eugene-ostashevsky.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEugene Ostashevsky\u003c\/a\u003e, the poem is dedicated to the aviator Roland Garros and marks Zdanevich’s initiation into Futurist poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rab-Rab Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399025140042,"sku":"9789526518381","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/BB6-1.jpg?v=1728912435","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/berlin-khaltura-1922","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}