Alexander Vvedensky (poet)

Alexander Vvedensky
BornAlexander Ivanovich Vvedensky
6 December 1904
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died19 December 1941 (aged 37)
OccupationPoet, dramatist, writer
PeriodModernism
Literary movementOBERIU

Alexander Ivanovich Vvedensky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Введе́нский; 6 December 1904 – 19 December 1941) was a Russian poet and dramatist with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union. Vvedensky is widely considered (among contemporary Russian writers and literary scholars) as one of the most original and important authors to write in Russian in the early Soviet period. Vvedensky considered his own poetry "a critique of reason more powerful than Kant's."[1]

  1. ^ Epstein, Thomas (2004). "Vvedensky in Love". The New Arcadia Review. Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2010-11-22.