Mayakovsky: Plays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810113398)

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.

Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
ISBN-10: 0810113392
ISBN-13: 9780810113398
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1995
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.13w x 0.86d