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Art as Aping: The Uses of Dialogism in Timur Kibirov’s: “To Igor’ Pomerantsev. Summer Reflections on the Fate of Belles Lettres”
Author(s) -
Khagi Sofya
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the russian review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9434
pISSN - 0036-0341
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9434.00251
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , library science , humanities , art
Discussions of contemporary Russian poetry frequently mention an artistic movement that found its early practitioners in Russia in the 1960s and later came to be known as sotsart or conceptualism.' This paper will focus on a poem by Timur Kibirov, "To Igor' Pomerantsev. Summer Reflections on the Fate of Belles Lettres. Second Edition" ("Igoriu Pomerantsevu. Letnie razmyshleniia o sud'bakh iziashchnoi slovesnosti. Vtoraia redaktsiia"). In addition to being, arguably, the most popular poet of the 1990s in Russia, Kibirov is also one of the best-known (along with Dmitrii Prigov and Lev Rubinshtein) conceptualists.2 I will explore, with Kibirov's piece as an example, the mechanics of heteroglossia's comic (as well as serious) employment by a postmodernist school. First I will demonstrate that Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of heteroglossia provides a useful framework for the analysis of Kibirov's poem. Then I will show that the mechanics of heteroglossia's utilization by Kibirov somewhat differs from Bakhtin's schemes. I will proceed to argue that Kibirov's employment of dialogism for comic and parodic purposes should not overshadow a darker aspect of