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Title: The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Patricia Blake, Max Hayward ISBN: 0-253-20189-6 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: October, 1975 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THE VOICE OF REVOLUTION.
Comment: His verses are curses,
His words are sharp swords,
His phrases are races
Of animal herds,
He slashes and bashes,
He kicks and he bites,
The world of the uselessness,
Bleeds and than dies.
Rating: 4
Summary: great epics
Comment: Mayakovsky was one of the foremost futurist poets of the early 20th centuary. He wrote anguished (and mildly egocentric) pieces about being alone and unrequited in love. He also wrote political poems that were supposed to moblize the workers and shock the borgeosie establishment. This book is worth buying for the two epics "A cloud in trousers" and "The backbone flute" alone. The other poems are the icing on the cake, sounding off his thundering poetic voice. His final poem, "Past one o'clock.." starkly contrasts the others with it's muted depression. He would include part of it in his suicide note, changing the line "now you and I are quits" to "now life and I are quits." The Bedbug is a savage satire of Soviet society, and (had he not shot himself) would probably have gotten him arrested during the imminent Stalinist purges. After his death, Mayakovsky was lauded by Stalin. His pro-Bolshevik political verses were glorified and proudly shown off by the state, whilst his other poems and satirical plays were quietly supressed. Get this book if you want to see every side of Mayakovsky, and not just the one that has been publicized for years as propaganda.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good if you dig Russian lit.
Comment: Well, I love pre-Revolution Russian literature, so I guess I'm a little biased towards this book, but it really is good. Even the introduction is fascinating and inspiring if you ask me.
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Title: Listen!: Early Poems, 1913-1918 (Pocket Poets Series, No 47) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Maria Enzberger, Maria Enzensberger ISBN: 0872862550 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Nervous People, and Other Satires by Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hugh McLean, Maria Gordon ISBN: 0253201926 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: December, 1975 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alexander Tvardovsky ISBN: 0451527097 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Why Lenin? Why Stalin? Why Gorbachev?: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet System (3rd Edition) by Von Laue ISBN: 0065011112 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 07 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $37.40 |
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Title: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0345368754 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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