Imaginism

Imaginism (Russian Имажинизм / Imaschinism ) was a Russian poet grouping at the beginning of the 1920s, which must be seen in connection with the so-called Gruppowtschina, the division of Russian literature into many small streams. Main representatives were Vadim Scherschenewitsch, Anatoly Marienhof and Alexander Kussikow and partly Sergei Yesenin.

The prelude to the movement formed in 1919 the publication of a manifesto in the journal Voronezh Sirena. The movement bordered on the one hand programmatically from the Futurists by set instead of the word image in the center of their writing, they also built in many of these on. It may also be assumed that had contributed contacts with the English poets of Imagism, Ezra Pound in 1915, the inspiration of Russian poetry scene.

The image should be freed in the poetry of the Imagists full of form and content; as a result, created poems full of metaphors, comparisons and analogies. The novel without falsehood (novel bes Wranja, 1927) by Anatoly Mariengof again distinguished himself mainly by revealing poems about the love life of Sergei Yesenin.

The movement was very short-lived and disappeared already mid-twenties from the scene. Yesenin, who clearly stood out with his visionary image associations and new theories image of his less gifted fellow poet, in 1924 fell out with Marienhof and died the following year.

• Literary group
• Literature ( Russian)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• 1920