Iliazd allowed the materials of the book—namely type—to serve as the conceptual, visual and phonetic building blocks for "Lidantiu as a Beacon", the culmination of his seven-year investigation of the experimental language of "zaum". The arrangements of different styles and sizes of Cyrillic type move across each page and construct, in the words of one historian, a “performance on the page” of letters and sounds. Indeed these compositions visually and phonetically delineate the convoluted, Hell-based plot and define the characters including a woman, five cadavers, a Spirit, two portraits (Likeness and Non-Likeness), a realist painter, and Lidantiu, an artist friend who died in 1917, and to whom Iliazd dedicated this book.