Summary
Benedikt Livšic: The One-and-a-half-Eyed Archer
In the world of avant-garde studies, Benedikt Livšic's One-and-a-half-Eyed Archer is, in many respects, a unique book. It is also the first real history of the Russian avant-garde that Livšic wrote and published at a time when the Russian avant-garde was a taboo topic. At the same time, it is a documentary-memoir text about the most turbulent times not only of Russian futurism, but also of other avant-garde events in Russian art and literature. This book can also be read as a kind of unusual, exciting novel in which the main characters are creators who in the world of the artistic, i.e. artistic avant-garde achieved the most radical revolution, not only in the context of Russian art but also on a global scale.
And it is no coincidence that in Russian culture today The One and a Half Eyed Shooter has grown into a cult book about the Russian avant-garde, not only because its author died tragically in Stalin's gulag, but also because it is about a truly exceptional work (in the last ten years this book has been published in several editions, both in Russian and in other world languages).
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