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Futurism

In Futurism: Literature
Their invented zaum—the largely untranslatable name given to their “transrational” language—was intended to take language beyond logical meanings in the direction of a new visionary mysticism. Kruchenykh’s opera Pobeda nad solncem (1913; “Victory over the Sun”) and Khlebnikov’s play Zangezi (1922) are two of the most-important examples…
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Rozanova

In Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova
…introduced Rozanova to “trans-sense,” or zaum poetry, the name of a type of linguistic sound experiment then popular among Futurists, and she began writing accomplished poetry in that style, as well as illustrating books by Kruchonykh and Velimir Khlebnikov (Vzorval, “Explodity”; Vozropshchem, “Let’s Grumble”; and Bukh lesiny, “A Forestly Rapid”…
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