«Пятистишие» Алексея Крученых «Дыр бул щыл…» как прецедентный текст русскоязычного авангарда XX — начала XXI века

Логос. 2026. Т. 36. № 3. С. 41–68.

Pavlovets M.

The poem Dyr bul shchyl…, unlike the two other adjacent poems in Aleksei Kruchenykh’s book Pomada (Lipstick) (1913), whose words “have no definite meaning,” became one of the most famous poetic texts of the Russian avant-garde. Around it, two main interpretative traditions have emerged: the semantic one, which views Dyr bul shchyl… as an enigmatic text that can be at least partially deciphered (David Burliuk, Leonid Katsis, and others), including through its genesis (Nikolai Bogomolov, Georgy Levinton, Pavel Uspensky, etc.); and the expressive one, which interprets it as a form of writing that indeed “has no definite meaning” but exerts a suggestive effect on the recipient (Aleksei Kruchenykh himself, Vladimir Markov, Nils-Åke Nilsson).

This study proposes yet another path for deciphering Dyr bul shchyl… — as an anagrammatic form of writing — and offers a brief overview of certain artistic interpretations of the author’s main opus of world transrational poetry, created by subsequent generations of poets, primarily those who continued the line of the historical avant-garde. A comparative analysis of scholarly and artistic receptions of Dyr bul shchyl… demonstrates that there is no insurmountable boundary between these approaches: the thinking of scholars and poets, as a rule, follows the same interpretative routes. This is especially evident in the works of the neo-avant-garde poets of the second half of the 20th century: members of the Lianozovo School, the neo-futurist Aleksandr Kondratov, and our contemporaries Mikhail Sukhotin, German Lukomnikov, among others. Such closeness of scholarly and artistic discourses fully corresponds to the general spirit of convergence between the humanities and poetry in the second half of the 20th century — especially experimental poetry — through their mutual influence and shared use of similar methodological tools.

Keywords: андеграунд, русский футуризм, the neo-avant-garde, заумь, Zaum’, исторический авангард, неоавангард, historical avant-garde, the Underground, Aleksei Kruchenykh, experimental poetry, Алексей Крученых, экспериментальная поэзия

Publication based on the results of: Language, literature and culture in historical and social perspective (2025)