Vladimir Mayakovsky

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1557134448

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Vladimir Mayakovsky by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

Two days before the 1913 premiere of this Futurist play in verse, the original cast withdrew because rumors started to spread across Saint Petersburg that they would be pelted with garbage and beaten by the public. In fact, the audience did throw rotten eggs, shouting at 20-year-old Vladimir Mayakovsky (who played the leading role), "Stop him immediately!... Catch him!... He is not to get away!... Make him give us back our money!" According to actor Konstantin Tomashevsky: Those were the times of turmoil, anxiety, dark forebodings. All of us instantly recognized in Mayakovsky a revolutionary, even if his hectic sermons to the human souls, mutilated by the vile city, sounded a bit muddled. It was an attempt at tearing off masks, revealing the sores of the society, sick beneath the veneer of respectability. Other theatrical events that season were barely noticed. "Who's more insane, the Futurists or the public?" the Peterburgskaya Gazeta newspaper asked.

Author : Michael Almereyda
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015073929096

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Night Wraps the Sky by Michael Almereyda Pdf

A compendium of all things Mayakovsky: new translations of his poems and essays, eyewitness accounts, photographs, and artwork from his circle. A reconsideration of the poet for the post-Soviet world.

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Fyfieldbooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Russian poetry
ISBN : 178410292X

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Vladimir Mayakovsky and Other Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

'Vladimir Mayakovsky' & Other Poems is the only single-volume selection in English to fully represent the work of one of Modernism's vital literary forces. The poems encompass Mayakovsky's pre-Revolutionary surrealism as well as his exclamatory agitprop of the 1920s, by which time he had become the pre-eminent Soviet poet. New translations of key works are included alongside several poems that have never been translated into English before, while an introduction and notes provide helpful contexts and elucidations. Screenplays, dramatic scripts and advertising slogans give a sense of the unusual breadth and invention of Mayakovsky's project, and his skill both as poet and propagandist. 'A poet needs to be good at life as well', he writes; his job is to 'smooth brains with the file of his tongue'. Womack's translations help to revise the predominant image of Mayakovsky as a hectoring egoist, offering a more nuanced impression of a poet whose concern was as much comradeship and intimacy as politics and posterity: 'all of this - do you want it? - I will abandon for one single tender human word.' -- from back cover.

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015011042119

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Love is the Heart of Everything by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015062844306

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My Discovery of America by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

"Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bengt Jangfeldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226056975

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Mayakovsky by Bengt Jangfeldt Pdf

A Life at Stake is the first serious biography of the legendary Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Physically imposing, crude, a sexual adventurer and ex-convict, Mayakovsky rose to fame between 1912 and 1917 as a Futurist agitator and the author of radical poems and plays. He embraced the Russian Revolution and became one of its most passionate propagandists, then at the age of thirty-six took his own life, disappointed in the course of Soviet society and ravaged by private conflicts. Mayakovsky s poems are as exhilarating today as when he declaimed them for friends in smoky flats in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and New York. In Bengt Jangfeldt s propulsive biography, Mayakovsky s life, too, is compelling: a story of constant, passionate upheaval against the background of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, Stalin s terror, and cycles of anti-Semitism. Mayakovsky emerges from this biography a highly vulnerable figure, more a dreamer than a revolutionary, more a political romantic than a hardened Communist."

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : New York : Washington Square Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076006134949

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The Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780810166578

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Selected Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

James McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Soviet regime, and because of his posthumous enshrinement by Stalin as “the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch,” Mayakovsky has most often been interpreted—and translated—within a political context. McGavran’s translations reveal a more nuanced poet who possessed a passion for word creation and linguistic manipulation. Mayakovsky’s bombastic metaphors and formal élan shine through in these translations, and McGavran’s commentary provides vital information on Mayakovsky, illuminating the poet’s many references to the Russian literary canon, his contemporaries in art and culture, and Soviet figures and policies.

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political poetry, Russian
ISBN : 0995767513

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

Though Mayakovsky is predominently regarded in the West as a tortured love poet; he was one of the 20th centuries' most important political poets, too. Thisis a bi-lingual Russian/English edition of Mayakovsky's most significant poem.

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106001605127

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Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

Author : Victor Terras
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106006796483

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Vladimir Mayakovsky by Victor Terras Pdf

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Essays
ISBN : 1910392162

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VOLODYA by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

"This groundbreaking selection of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry, lectures and artworks draws together for the first time his key translators from the 1930's to the present day, bringing some remarkable works back into print in the process and introducing poems which have never before been translated"--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Ann Charters,Samuel Charters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015058018931

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I Love by Ann Charters,Samuel Charters Pdf

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : New York : Washington Square Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037181059

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The Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810113392

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Mayakovsky by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

One of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant garde. An early revolutionary, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays - all of which were banned until after Stalin's death - reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution. They are collected here with his first, more personal work, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy. This volume includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery play written in 1918 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution; The Bathhouse, a sharp attack on Soviet bureaucracy subtitled "a drama of circus and fireworks"; and The Bedbug, in which a worker with bourgeois pretensions is frozen and resurrected fifty years later, when the world has been transformed into a material paradise. Mayakovsky's first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, reveals the poet's propensity for painful self-dramatization and his flair for grotesque imagery. Fresh, inventive, and shot through with zany humor, Mayakovsky's plays represent a radically new kind of theater.