Speshnev, Georgy Valerianovich

The descendant of Nikolai Alexandrovich Speshnev - one of the Petrashevists , who was the prototype of Nikolai Stavrogin from the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky " Demons ". Father - Valerian Alekseevich - Moscow notary. Mother - Zinaida Gennadyevna - daughter of the Russian historian G.F. Karpov . George was the third child (after Panteleimon and Zinaida). Since 1923 he lived in Tobolsk , where his family was sent. After some time, he returned to central Russia, moved from journalism to construction. In 1941 he moved to Chelyabinsk, where he lived with his family for seventeen years. In 1958 he was transferred to one of the enterprises of the city of Katav-Ivanovsk .

Family

Wife - Zoya Vasilyevna Lebedeva children - Vladimir, Olga, Boris, Leo, Vera.

He began to write at a young age when he ended up in Moscow. The futurists in general, and V. Mayakovsky and V. Khlebnikov in particular, influenced him. He destroyed his first literary work, then partially restored it. Most of the works have never been published in connection with their "anti-Soviet" style and content. This style can be described as “anti-aesthetics” with its “anti-metaphors” and “anti-meter”. The author himself in his message “To My Children, and Maybe Publishers” ^[1] describes his artwork as a meta-fan - the construction of one global piece of brick, which he put “on the table” for almost his entire life. He, in connection with the circumstances of that time, had little contact with his brothers in the literary workshop, therefore, the memories of his contemporaries were not preserved.

After the death of Georgy Valerianovich in 1987, an extensive literary heritage remained, only partially published. A fragment of his work was published posthumously in the Bulletin of the Velimir Khlebnikov Society in 1999. In the book of Sergei Biryukov “Amplitude of the avant-garde” (2014), a separate chapter is devoted to Georgy Speshnev ^[2] , his work is also considered in the dissertation of S. Biryukov “Formative strategies of avant-garde art in Russian culture of the 20th century” ^[3] .

The collected works "Personal file or Updating" G. Speshnev created his whole life, collecting it from separate independent works. The collection consists of three codes and thirteen collections.

The meeting is conditionally divided into 2 parts. The first part - “Love games of our century” - is a kitsch- romance. The second part - "Word games not of our century." The vaults consist of abstract verbal images and speculative constructions.

from the "Extra Book":

“ ... Almost everything written by me is combined in this work. It was gradually composed of things written at different times, Therefore, each of its units, being part of the whole, also has its own independent meaning. The whole work consists of 2 parts. In the first part of 3 vaults, in the second - 7.

Vaults are divided into collections, collections to scrolls, scrolls to columns, most columns are still divided into collections numbered in Roman numerals, collections to verses numbered in Arabic numerals. In the second part there is an additional division of chapters into semi-chapters.

The first set (2 parts) contains experimental things written in youth.

The second set is written in old age and is a kind of self-review.

The third and fourth vaults contain things written at different times and originally conceived as independent.

The rest of the codes are written according to the general plan, as a necessary continuation and completion of previously written codes.

All these explanations are needed only because the structure of my work is no less important than the content itself. (They do not exist from each other. Is there any ....... content that could be separated from the building? The writer, like the architect, only builds the building, and the reader settles in it.) ”'

Books

• Georgy Speshnev Personal file, or Update: Selected from the unreleased. - [b. m.]: Publishing Solutions, 2017. - 250 p. —— ISBN 978-5-4483-9359-4

• August 6 and August 9 in Moscow , in the Cultural Center of Academician D.S. Likhachev, the first Festival of the Literary Experiment (FLE) took place. The date of the festival was not chosen by chance - on August 6, George Speshnev (1912–1987), Vladimir Burich (1932–1994) and Dmitry Avaliani (1938–2003) were born, each of whom expanded his ideas about style, form and language with his literary experiments. The Festival of Literary Experiment (FLE) was held by its founder and curator - Doctor of Philology Alexander Bubnov . ^[four]

• Biryukov S. Unknown avant-garde artist (About George Speshnev) // Russian Literature. - Amsterdam, 2005 .-- Vol. 57, No. 3-4 . - P. 292-315.
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