Велимир Хлебников – своенравный Бог Владимира Казакова
Velimir Khlebnikov — Vladimir Kazakov’s Wilful God

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the continuity of Vladimir Kazakov to Velimir Khlebnikov. The organic extension of Khlebnikov’s key ideas and the mechanisms of their representation in Kazakov’s poetics can be observed on several levels. First of all, multi-genre is studied as the main principle of text construction in the both poets’ works, which makes their structure collage or montage. Then, the connection between the budetlyanin and the absurdist is revealed on the level of situationality, themes and motifs that address the central issue of death: the transposition of the situation of a meeting the salon of Lady Death, the heroine of Khlebnikov’s play Death’s mistake, into Kazakov’s novel Mistake of the living is opserved; the motifs of the razor/blade, the throat, the snow-white handkerchief and blood, directly inherited by Kazakov from the President of the Earth Globe, are interpreted. The pivotal point of the article an appeal to language, including the poets’ linguistic modulation — from zaum to its parody and further to nonsense — intended to loosen the ossified formulas and step beyond the limits of one’s mind into uncharted space. The author comes to the conclusion that the attempt to look from beyond, from outside the new poetic word, is a poetic transgression in the spirit of Martin Heidegger, whose notion of the linguistic dimension provides a different perspective on the related creative acts, allowing to understand the essence and development of Khlebnikov’s and Kazakov’s avant-garde experiment — the detachment of the word that transcends time and space and blurs death.

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