Nel´dikhen, Sergei Evgen´evich (1891 - 1942) Prazdnik. (Il´ia Radalet). Poemoroman. Chast´vtoraia. [Taganrog,] 1923 - 1924. 31 p.
Prazdnik. (Il´ia Radalet). Poemoroman. Chast´vtoraia. [Taganrog,] 1923 - 1924. 31 p.
On front cover: Sergei Nel´dikhen Prazdnik (Il´ia Radalet) Poemoroman Ukraina 1923 - 1924
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Small 8 vo, original covers with pasted label. 1000 copies printed. VERY GOOD.

Very well preserved copy of what may prove to be some delightfully shabby poetry, considered by some a poetry of misunderstood genius. Nel´dikhen was arrested in 1941 and died in imprisonment in one of the Northern Soviet concentration camps in 1942.The only reason for his arrest was his German origin.Most of his books were withdrawn even from academic libraries and banned for distribution via antiquarian book shops net.


Neldikhen was an Acmeist, who appeared in one of the three issues of 'Abraksas,' edited by Mikhail Kuzmin and Anna Radlova. His critics were many: 'Neldikhen's poems are the only bad poems in the Poets' Workshop almanachs, and in this way they are better than all others' (Lev Lunts). 'The 'I' on whose behalf Neldikhen speaks, presented an example of select and utter fool, and a happy, triumphant and infinitely smug fool at that' (Khodasevich). He composed manifestos advocating 'literary syncretism,' the maximal rapprochement between poetry and prose, for which was rather ironically dubbed 'The Russian Whitman.'
By the 1930s he'd been pretty thoroughly rebuffed by the literati, and published children's poetry and jingles for the Red Army. (Most of the above from an article by Danila Davydov.)