"Open Letter to Tretyakow" C802 (Gallup)
in: Ezra Pound' Poetry and Prose. Contribution to Periodicals. Baechler, 
Litz, Longenbach eds. New York-London: Garland, 1991
Volume V 1928-1932 C700-C904, pp. 272-273.
ngy


At 13:51 2003.12.01., you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Sergei Tertyakov was a Russian  leftwing futurist and propagator of
>"literature of fact" (in the late 1920's and early 1930's). In a German
>edition of Sergej Tretjakow, Gesichter der Avantgarde (Aufbau-Verlag
>Berlin und Weimar 1991, p. 462) I found an interesting note:
>
>"1931 - Polemiken gegen Tretjakows Literaturbegriff und Schriftstellerbild
>[...]. Ezra Pound, 'Open letter to Tertyakov'. In: Front, 2/1931, s.
>124-126".
>
>Obviously, this is a reply to Tretyakov's earlier  contribution to Front,
>cf. Baechler, Litz & Longenbach,  Pound's Contributions to periodicals
>(1991), vol. 5:
>
>         Open Letter to Tretyakow, kolchoznik, Front, I. 2 (Feb. 1931)
>124-6. Concerning "Report of S. Tretyakow, Kolchoznik" in the issue for
>Dec. 1930.)
>
>Does anyone happen to know where I can find Pound's 'Open letter'? If the
>reference is correct, where can one find Front (obviously a journal)?
>
>I will be grateful for any hints for my further digging in the
>Russian-Western modernist connections!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Lars Kleberg

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