Princip montaza v pesennoj lirike Janki Djagilevoj

Yanka Dyagileva, rock poet of the late 80s from Novosibirsk, died in 1991 at the age of 24. She left behind a relatively small oeuvre consisting of only 29 songs. Up to the present day, her lyrics have been subject to little research. One of the reasons for that may lie in the unusual complexity of most of her song texts which is closely connected to her technique of composition. The article at hand is concerned with the particular structure underlying the majority of Yanka’s texts. Her lyrics consist of a considerable number of short, heterogeneous fragments which often appear to have been linked at random. This technique, generally known as montage, has frequently been used in the works of Russian and Western avant-garde poets. The fragments assembled in Yanka’s lyrics are analysed with respect to their origins and syntactic structure. Finally, it is shown that the method of montage results in the transformation of the traditional lyrical I in Dyagileva’s texts. The present article is based on a chapter of a master thesis written in German that will be submitted this year.