Imaginism

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Imaginism ( Russian Имажинизм / Imaschinism ) was a Russian group of poets at the beginning of the 1920s , which must be seen in connection with the so-called Gruppovtschina , the division of Russian literature into many small currents. Main representatives were Vadim Scherschenewitsch , Anatoli Marienhof and Alexander Kussikow as well as some Sergei Jessenin .

The movement began in 1919 with the publication of a manifesto in the Voronezh magazine Sirena . On the one hand, the movement programmatically differentiated itself from the futurists by placing the image at the center of its poetry instead of the word , on the other hand it built on them in many ways. It can also be assumed that contacts with the American poet of imagism , Ezra Pound, in 1915 contributed to the inspiration of the Russian poet scene.

In the poetry of the imaginists, the image was to be completely freed of form and content; The result was poems full of metaphors , comparisons and analogies. The novel without a lie ( Roman bes wranja , 1927) by Anatoli Mariengof, on the other hand, was characterized above all by revealing poems about the love life of Sergei Yessenin.

The movement was very short-lived and disappeared from the scene by the mid-1920s. Jessenin, who clearly stood out from his less talented poet colleagues with his visionary image associations and new image theories, fell out with Marienhof in 1924 and died the following year.