Author | Vladimir Mayakovsky |
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Original title | Владимир Маяковский |
Language | Russian |
Genre | avant-garde tragedy |
Publication date | 1914 |
Publication place | Russia |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Vladimir Mayakovsky is a tragedy in verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1913, premiered on December 2 of that year and published in 1914 by the First Futurists' Journal, later to be included into the Simple as Mooing collection. An avant-garde verse drama, satirizing the urban life and, at the same time, hailing the up-and-coming revolution of the industrial power, it featured a set of bizarre, cartoonish characters and a poet protagonist.[1][2]