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20%OFFVladimir Mayakovsky - Volodya: Selected Works - 9781910392164 - V9781910392164
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Volodya: Selected Works

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Description for Volodya: Selected Works Paperback. This groundbreaking collection draws together for the first time Mayakovsky's key translators from the 1930s to the present day, bringing some remarkable works back into print in the process and introducing poems which have never before been translated. Editor(s): Carrick, Rosy Patience. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 30. Weight in Grams: 392.
'This exhibition is not a jubilee, it's an account of my work. I demand help - not the glorification of non-existent virtues. That's what we are talking about, comrades, and not about glorifying private persons.' Mayakovsky was a poet, playwright, artist, director, actor, diarist, producer of agitprop posters and advertisement slogans, and writer of articles, essays and speeches. The inherent conflict of his status as an avant-garde communist writer working within the steadily narrowing cultural conditions of early Soviet Russia runs vividly throughout his work, and was a significant contributing factor to his suicide at the age of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910392164
SKU
V9781910392164
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About Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich 'Volodya' Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was born in Georgia on 19 July 1893. Following the death of his father in 1906 he moved to Moscow with his mother and two sisters. At the age of fifteen he became a member of the Bolshevik party, and between 1908 and 1910 was arrested three times for revolutionary activity, and imprisoned for a ... Read more

Reviews for Volodya: Selected Works
His poetry, full of neologisms, punchy metaphors, original imagery, syncopated rhythm and staccato lines, stuns the reader with its energy and self-confidence and shouts across the years Spectator (2015).; Mayakovsky, the whirlwind Russian who composed grandiose, sprawling poems about revolution, romantic love, the Soviet Union and himself ... a captivating, contradictory, frustrating human being. Who would not want ... Read more

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