Name: Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
Brand: Autograph poem, ‘Zhizn’. 1916
Price: 4500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
Autograph poem, ‘Zhizn’. 1916
Autograph manuscript of the poem ‘Zhizn’ / Tanka’ (‘Life / Tanka’), Dornah, 1916.

In Russian. One page, 189 x 140mm, on a bifolium, conjoined at foot, numbered ‘1’ and ‘35’ at head, emendations to the subtitle and date.

Nad travoy motylek –
Samoletnyy tsvetok …
Tak i ya : v veter – smert’ –
Nad soboy – stebel’kom –
Prolechu motyl’kom.

‘A moth over the grass’: Bely’s meditation on the fragility of life, in the traditional Japanese form of a ‘tanka’.

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