Поэтика и политика периодического самиздата. Случай транспонанса

Abstract

The article describes the position of the transfurist group within the field of Soviet unofficial culture and the way they used it to speak about the current state of the underground community. It shows that their self-positioning within this field as well as their overall aesthetic project were a reaction to their provincial status which marginalized them in the community. Apart from this, poets from Moscow and Leningrad saw transfurists as heirs of the Russian avant-garde, the movement that allegedly held the same ideological views as the Soviet state. The article demonstrates that, while taking on Futurist aesthetics, transfurists adopted a conceptual approach towards the avant-garde legacy and the poetic systems of their contemporaries. They invented ways of indicating the ambiguous position of unofficial culture, which was caught between “tradition” that had ended abruptly and new forms of literary mores and publicity. The paper argues that such a “conceptualist drive” was common for samizdat periodicals as one of the main tools of communication within the unofficial field.