Mayakovsky : : A Poet in the Revolution / / Edward James Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Brown, Edward James,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University ; 1590
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)

An absorbing portrait of an extraordinary man, an analysis of the work of a great Russian poet, and the evocation of a crucial period in Russian cultural history—all are combined in Edward J. Brown's literary biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky. It is the only book to reveal the whole Mayakovsky, not just aspects of his tortured personality or artistic work, and will be immediately recognized as definitive.Mayakovsky contributed to the cultural life of Soviet Russia not only as a lyric poet but as a playwright, graphic artist, and satirist of the conventional art forms of his day. By examining his art in terms of his life, Edward Brown shows how intensely personal it was and how bound up in the literary and political history of his time. The intellectual turmoil of the period is skillfully re-created, especially the nature, ambience, and personalities of Russian futurism. Above all, the book reveals the man—a committed Bolshevik and a dedicated artist, but also a hypochondriac, compulsive gambler, and eventual suicide.Originally published in 1973.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- A Note on Transliteration -- Table of Contents -- Introductory Remarks -- Chapter One. Prelude: April 9, 1930 -- Chapter Two. The Revolution: Politics -- Chapter Three. The Revolution: Art -- Chapter Four. Mayakovsky in the Futurist Collections -- Chapter Five. 1915: The Cloud and the Flute -- Chapter Six. 1916: "In My Head, War and the Universe, in My Heart, Man" -- Chapter Seven. Form, Image, and Idea in the Early Poems -- Chapter Eight. The Poet Engaged -- Chapter Nine. About That, and About Some Other Things -- Chapter Ten. A Commercial Artist Discovers America -- Chapter Eleven. Contemporaries -- Chapter Twelve. The Cinema and the Stage -- Chapter Thirteen. A Girl from a Different World -- Chapter Fourteen. The Heart Yearns for a Bullet -- Epilogue—Not in Heaven -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index of Names -- Index of Titles of Mayakovsky's Works