My Futurist Years

Download or read book My Futurist Years written by Roman Jakobson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Futurist Years is one of the most important reflections on the Russian Futurist movement and a cornerstone in the career of one of the century's greatest linguistic and literary thinkers ... Along with the quite moving recollections of his friendships with such Modernist figures as Majakovskij, Xlebnikov, and Malevich, the book includes Jakobson's letters to other Futurists active in the scene and to his close friend Elsa Brik, later to gain notoriety as the French writer Elsa Triolet and wife of the poet Louis Aragon."-back cover.