The article deals with the first poetry book by S. Tretyakov “Iron Pause” (“Zheleznaya
pauza”) published in Vladivostok in 1919 but prepared for publication earlier in Moscow – in
1915–1917.
“Iron Pause” (“Zheleznaya pauza”) belongs to rare and little investigated books for which the
approach used in the article with respect to poetics is topical. The author analyzed the key texts of
the first and second parts of the books: “The Match Box” (“Spichechnaya korobka”), “You in
Darkness Read, Like a Cat” (“Vy v temnote chitaete, kak koshka”), “Carpet” (“Kover”), “Allegro
Trills” (“Treli allegro”), “Impudent People” (“Nakhaly”). All these poems are interconnected not
only by common motifs, but also by verbal construction; they are characterized by intensive word
dynamics and geometry, numerous metonymic substitutions, high-level sematic concentration and
complicated rhythmic and phonetic patterns. Special attention in the article is paid to the under-
tones of the enigmatic poem “Impudent People” (“Nakhaly”) depicting some scenes of aggres-
sion, violence, “brutality” under the semblance of a festive event with fireworks. The poem’s
underlying idea displays traces of works by V. Khlebnikov (“The Star Alphabet”), by V. Maya-
kovsly (“The War and the World” poem) and by poets belonging to the Vladivostok creative
group “Tvorchestvo”.
Lyrical plots of the poems assembled in the book “Iron Pause” (“Zheleznaya pauza”) are not
original; they are traditional for avant-garde poetry and in a broader sense – for modernist poetry.
However, Tretyakov vitalizes traditional lexical repertory of modernist poetry giving it occasional
meaning and using all lexical units to achieve complex phonics and rhythmic structure.
Except that the article offers the implications review of the key poems of “Iron Pause”
(“Zheleznaya pauza”), “Impudent People” (“Nakhaly”), just like the entire book “Iron
Pause” (“Zheleznaya pauza”), is read by the article author in presence of the Far-Eastern
publicism and criticisim from newspapers and magazines published at the turn of 1920s by vari-
ous Far-Eastern political and literary entities. The article bibliography includes rare 1918–1922
editions of the Far East: newspapers “Echo” («Ekho»), “Vladivo-Nippo”, “Far Eastern Review”
(“Dalnevostochnoe obozrenie”), “Manchurian Life” (“Manzhurskaya zhisn’”), journals “Crea-
tion” (“Tvorchestvo”), “Biruch”, “Lel’”, “Yun’”, “Week” (“Nedelya”), etc.
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