Ego-Futurism

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Ego-Futurism was a Russian literary movement developed within the Russian Futurism of the 1910s by Igor Severyanin and some of his admirers. The movement was born in 1911, when Severyanin published a small brochure entitled "Prolog (Ego-Futurism)". Severyanin decried excessive objectivity of the Cubo-Futurists, advocating a more subjective attitude. Although other Russian Futurists, dismissed the Ego-Futurists as puerile and vulgar, Severyanin argued that his advancement of outspoken sensuality, neologisms and ostentatious selfishness qualifies as futurism. The Ego-futurists significantly influenced the Imaginists of the 1920s.

[edit] Poets related to Ego-Futurism

• Vadim Bayan
• Vasilisk Gnedov
• Graal Arelsky
• Georgy Ivanov
• Ivan Ignatiev
• Igor Severyanin
• Dmitri Kryuchkov
• Konstantin Olimpov
• Ryurik Ivnev
• Vadim Shershenevich
• Pavel Shirokov

[edit] References

• Russkiy futurizm. Teoriya. Praktika. Kritika. Vospominaniya. ('Russian Futurism. Theory. Practice. Criticism. Memoir.'). Moscow, 1999.
• Petrova, E. (2000) Russkiy futurizm ('Russian Futurism'). SPb., 2000