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Selected Poems
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Artikel-Nr:
9780810129078
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.06.2013
Seiten:
404
Autor:
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Gewicht:
454 g
Format:
195x128x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY (1893-1930), one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century writers, was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant-garde.
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.