My Futurist Years

New York: Marsilio Publishers. 1992. — 345 pagesMemoir. Cultural Writing. Roman Jakobson was a founder of two of the most influential schools of 20th century literary thought: Russian Formalism and Structuralism Jakobson's rare sensibility in his explorations of language and art are nowhere more evident than in this volume, detailing the formative moment in his public and personal life. Along with the moving recollections of his friendships with such Modernist figures as Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, and Malevich, the book includes Jakobson's letters to other futurists active in the scene and to his close friend Elsa Kagan, later to gain notoriety as the French writer Elsa Triolet and wife of the poet Louis Aragon.