By Bengt Jangfeldt
Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and lifeless by means of his personal hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, ardour, and—most important—poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of the Russian Revolution and the rising Soviet kingdom, Mayakovsky used to be championed via Stalin after his demise and enshrined as a quasi-official Soviet poet, a place that resulted in undeserved forget between Western literary students whilst his impact on different poets has remained powerful.
With Mayakovsky, Bengt Jangfeldt deals the 1st complete biography of Mayakovsky, revealing a guy who was once extra dreamer than progressive, extra political romantic than hardened Communist. Jangfeldt units Mayakovsky’s existence and works opposed to the dramatic turbulence of his instances, from the cultured techniques of the pre-revolutionary avant-garde to the tension of Socialist Realism and the destruction of global warfare I to the violence—and hope—of the Russian Revolution, during the tightening grip of Stalinist terror and the becoming disillusion with Russian communism that at last led the poet to take his life.
Through all of it is threaded Mayakovsky’s celebrated love affair with Lili Brik and the relocating dating with Lili’s husband, Osip, besides a super depiction of the bigger circle of writers and artists round Mayakovsky, together with Maxim Gorky, Viktor Shklovsky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Roman Jakobson. the result's a literary lifestyles seen within the around, permitting us to appreciate the non-public and historic furies that drove Mayakovsky and generated his still-startling poetry.
Illustrated all through with infrequent photos of key characters and destinations, Mayakovsky is an incredible step within the revitalization of a vital determine of the twentieth-century avant-garde.
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