Poetry of Velimir Khlebnikov in the works of the band “Auktyon”. On the example of the album “Zhilets vershin”

Abstract

The article establishes and for the first time describes in detail the dialogue relationship of the Leningrad rock band “Auktyon” and the avantgarde poet Aleksei Khvostenko (1940–2004) with the poetic heritage of Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922). The author notes the closeness of the poetry of a major figure of the Russian avant-garde of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the poets and musicians of the underground of the second half of the 20th century. The research is based on the analysis of the reception of Velimir Khlebnikov’s poetry in the album “Zhilets vershin” (The summits dweller) (1995). The author defines the levels of the poetic dialogue of rock musicians with the work of the futurist and describes the structural and informative changes that the original texts have undergone in comparison with their existence in the musical creativity of the band “Auktyon”. The formation of the album in rock culture determines the specifics of the dialogue, mainly it is the correlation of the texts of other poets in the album and their transformation. The group of Khlebnikov’s lyrical works, which were selected and reworked by Khvostenko for the album, are considered from the point of view of their chronological sequence and the deployment of the lyrical plot. The author identifies the changes that the original texts have undergone and analyzed such cycle-forming connections of the album “Zhilets vershin” as the composition, title and chronotope.