{"product_id":"9780957510067","title":"A Cloud in Trousers: A tragicomedy of Russian Futurism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Horace Walpole)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussia. Winter. 1915. A dynasty totters and the fields of Europe are fed with the blood of a generation. Aristocratic certainties reel before the angry and implacable masses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto the literary salons of Petrograd staggers a bedraggled figure in an army greatcoat: Signalman Velemir Khlebnikov , deserter, mathematician, poet, linguist, Grand Wizard of Russian Futurism and self-proclaimed President of the Globe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot for Khlebnikov the aggressive polemical certainties of fellow poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's bear-like embrace of the Bolshevik revolution, nor his friend's desperate romantic entanglement in the marriage of a ballerina and a lawyer. Instead, his formidably mysterious mind is grappling with the healing of a pain-wracked cosmos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has formulated a numerological theory whose application could end forever the long blood-glut of history. And he has devised a universal language whose use could render the failures of communication he perceives both in his friends and the world at large as obsolete as his army-issue signal flags. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime bends as often as your mind in this anarchic, cosmological comedy. The King of the Future makes history, and synchronicity roles o.k.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"All will be forgotten by mankind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter it arrives in the land of Futurism;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, I, for my courage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill be honoured with a bizarre monument...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Khlebnikov, May 1914)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"...unusual, grim, absurd...often funny...A CLOUD IN TROUSERS exposes a deeply confused country seeking a viable political agenda...\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(James Christopher, TIME OUT.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Yellow House at Arles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090717741296,"sku":"9780957510067","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780957510067","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}