Three examples of Russian drama during the twenty years after the Revolution explore the way of life in a communist society and the immorality of a tyrant

The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre {The Bedbug / Marya / The Dragon} (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Isaac Babel

Yevgeny Schwartz

Michael Glenny

Literary

Penguin Classics

Three examples of Russian drama during the twenty years after the Revolution explore the way of life in a communist society and the immorality of a tyrant

The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre

Babel, Isaac

Schwartz, Yevgeny

Penguin??Books

How are verses made? (Cape editions, 43)

Poetry

J. Cape

This selection of Mayakovsky’s work covers his entire career―from the earliest pre-revolutionary lyrics to a poem found in a notebook after his suicide. Splendid translations of the poems, with the Russian on a facing page, and a fresh, colloquial version of Mayakovsky’s dramatic masterpiece, The Bedbug.

The Bedbug and Selected Poetry

Humor & Satire

Indiana University Press

The bedbug [a play] and selected poetry

For the Voice, first published in 1923, has long been recognized as one of the finest achievements of Russian avant-garde bookmaking, a tradition in which poets and artists collaborated to create books that attained the status of art objects. By any reckoning, For the Voice is a landmark event in the history of modern graphic design. The book was inspired by the "new optics," where ideas are given form through printed letters, turning them into pictorial signs, and by "words that are seen and not heard," as Lissitzky wrote. This three-volume slipcased set consists of a facsimile volume that is faithful to the original in size, color, weight, and paper quality; a translation by Peter France of the original text; and Voices of Revolution, a collection of critical essays that analyze the character and significance of the original publication and describe the inner workings of the poet's "construction in sound" complemented by the designer's "constructions for the eye."

For the Voice (English, Russian and Russian Edition)

Arts & Photography

LISSITZKY, El

Railing, Patricia

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

From the time his first, futurist poems were published in 1912 until his suicide at the age of thirty-six, Vladimir Mayakovsky made theatrical appearances in his written work and perfected an iconoclastic voice James Schuyler called "the intimate yell." As the poet laureate of the Russian Revolution, Mayakovsky led a generation that staked everything on the notion that an artist could fuse a public and a private self. But by the time of Stalin's terror, the contradictions of the revolution caught up with him, and he ended in despair.A major influence on American poets of the twentieth century, Mayakovsky's work remains fascinating and urgent. Very few English translations have come close to capturing his lyric intensity, and a comprehensive volume of his writings has not been published in the past thirty years. In Night Wraps the Sky, the acclaimed filmmaker Michael Almereyda (Hamlet, William Eggleston in the Real World) presents Mayakovsky's key poems―translated by a new generation of Russian-American poets―alongside memoirs, artistic appreciations, and eyewitness accounts, written and pictorial, to create a full-length portrait of the man and the mythic era he came to embody.

Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

How Are Verses Made

Poems

Progress Publishers

One of Russia's greatest poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant-garde. Despite his revolutionary youth, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays--all banned until after Stalin's death--reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution. Mayakovsky: Plays includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery written in 1918 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution; The Bathhouse, a sharp attack on Soviet bureaucracy subtitled "a drama of circus and fireworks"; and The Bedbug, in which a worker with bourgeois pretensions is frozen and resurrected fifty years later, when the world has become a material paradise. The collection also includes Mayakovsky's more personal first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy.

Mayakovsky: Plays (European Drama Classics)

Dramas & Plays

Northwestern University Press

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