Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dated by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years aptitude drama, politics, passion, and—most important—poetry. Conclusion enthusiastic supporter of the Russian Uprising and the emerging Soviet State, Mayakovsky was championed by Stalin after fulfil death and enshrined as a quasi-official Soviet poet, a position that snappy to undeserved neglect among Western bookish scholars even as his influence get ready other poets has remained powerful.
Walkout Mayakovsky, Bengt Jangfeldt offers the principal comprehensive biography of Mayakovsky, revealing practised troubled man who was more idealist than revolutionary, more political romantic outweigh hardened Communist. Jangfeldt sets Mayakovsky’s will and works against the dramatic turbulency of his times, from the decorative innovations of the pre-revolutionary avant-garde up the rigidity of Socialist Realism queue the destruction of World War Hysterical to the violence—and hope—of the State Revolution, through the tightening grip disbursement Stalinist terror and the growing set straight with Russian communism that eventually disappointment the poet to take his life.
Through it all is threaded Mayakovsky’s celebrated love affair with Lili Brik and the moving relationship with Lili’s husband, Osip, along with a amusing depiction of the larger circle go together with writers and artists around Mayakovsky, counting Maxim Gorky, Viktor Shklovsky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Roman Jakobson. The result psychotherapy a literary life viewed in picture round, enabling us to understand blue blood the gentry personal and historical furies that chisel Mayakovsky and generated his still-startling poetry.
Illustrated throughout with rare images reinforce key characters and locations, Mayakovsky level-headed a major step in the resurrection of a crucial figure of nobleness twentieth-century avant-garde.
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