Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, Volume II, Prose, Plays, and Supersagas

Velimir Khlebnikov

Translated by Paul Schmidt

Edited by Ronald Vroon

    Frontispiece Khlebnikov, about 1912 (age twenty-seven)

    Translator's Introduction

    Prose

    Introduction

    Self-Statement

    A Sinner's Seduction

    The I-Singer of Universong

    Hooder

    Murksong

    A Simple Story

    A Schoolgirl's Story

    Youngman Mecrocosm

    The Dead Son Leaves His Burial Mound

    Easter Day

    Okó

    "Lubny is a strange, godforsaken town"

    "Kolya was a handsome boy"

    Mountain People

    A Heart of Steel

    Nikolai

    Usa-Gali

    Ka

    Notes from the Past

    "I went to Asoka"

    "We climbed aboard"

    Dream

    "Once again I followed the yellow paths"

    The Scythian Headdress: A Mysterium

    "Does a story have to start with childhood?"

    "You could swim"

    "No one will deny"

    Yasir

    October on the Neva

    The Hunt

    The Scarlet Saber

    Before the War

    "Whose idea was it anyway?"

    Razin: Two Trinities

    The Willow Twig

    Plays

    Introduction

    Snowhite

    The Girl-God

    The Little Devil

    The Marquise des S.

    Asparuh

    "Laughing-Eyes"

    Mrs. Laneen

    Backworlds

    "A coarse black face"

    Miss Death Makes a Mistake

    "A street of the future"

    The Gods

    The Tuberculosis Spirochete

    Supersagas

    Introduction

    Otter's Children

    War in a Mousetrap

    Azia Unbound

    Zangezi

    Notes

    Russian Index of Titles

    English Index of Titles

  • Cover: Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, Volume II, Prose, Plays, and Supersagas

Paul Schmidt is the winner of the Max Hayward Prize for his translation of Velimir Khlebnikov, The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian (Harvard).

Ronald Vroon is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA.