Mayakovsky a biography by bengt jangfeldt

Review

"A gripping account of the poet's tumultuous life and tragic death." (New York Review of Books)

"Jangfeldt carefully shows the way in which all aspects of Mayakovsky's life--his womanizing, his astonishing productivity, his chain-smoking, his gambling, his poetry--came from the same source.

In Jangfeldt's concentration on how Mayakovsky's art and life were absolutely and inextricably intertwined, the granite Soviet figure is made into something more akin to a butch Russian Oscar Wilde, and is all the more interesting for the metamorphosis.

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Mayakovsky a biography by bengt jangfeldt

. . Mayakovsky is also a beautifully coordinated group portrait of the individuals surrounding Mayakovsky. .

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. . This is a wonderful book that presents us with a captivating, contradictory, frustrating human being." (Literary Review)

"Vladimir Mayakovsky, a forester’s son from the Caucasus, became the leading Russian avant-garde poet of the pre-World War I years, a prophet of the 1917 R