Vladimir Mayakovsky

Photographed by Alexander Rodchenko.
Born	July 19, 1893(1893-07-19) Baghdati, Russian Empire
Died	April 14, 1930(1930-04-14) (aged 36) Moscow, Soviet Union

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky [Владимир Владимирович Маяковский] was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor.

Works

Pro eto, 1923, JPG. Design by Rodchenko.

Dlya golosa, 1923, PDF, PDF. Design by Lissitzky.

Rabochim Kurska, [1924-7], PDF. Design by Rozhkov; unpublished.

(in Russian unless noted)

Books and pamphlets

• Ya! [Я!], Moscow: G.L. Kuzmin & S.D. Dolinsky, [1913].
• Tragediya [Трагедия], Moscow: Tip. I.N. Gryzunov i K., 1914, 44 pp, PDF.
• Prostoe kak mychanie [Простое как мычание], [Moscow]: Parus, 1916, 116 pp, PDF.
• Voyna i mir [Война и мир], [Moscow]: Parus, 1917, 48 pp.
• Misteriya-Buff [Мистерия-Буфф], [Moscow]: Svoboda, 1918, 78 pp.
• 150 000 000, 1920.
• Lyublyu [Люблю], Moscow: VCHUTEMAS, 1922, 47 pp.
• Pro eto [Про это], Moscow and Petrograd: Gos. sots.-ekon. izd-vo, 1923, 43 pp.
  • V.V. Majakovskij: Pro eto. Übersetzung und Interpretation, trans. & comm. Senta Everts-Grigat, Munich: Sagner, 1975. (German)
• Dlya golosa [Для голоса; For the Voice], Berlin: R.S.F.S.R. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel’stvo, 1923, 61 pp, PDF. A collection of 13 poems by Mayakovsky, "constructed" by Lissitzky, printed in 3000 copies by Lutze & Vogt, Berlin. [1]
• Solntse: Poema [Солнце: Поэма], Moscow: Krug, 1923, [32] pp.
• Rabochim Kurska [Рабочим Курска], [1924-7]. Design by Yuri Rozhkov (Юрий Рожков); unpublished. [2] [3]
• Solntse v gostyach u Mayakovskogo [Солнце в гостях у Маяковского], New York: New World Press, 1925, 8 pp.
• Sergeyu Eseninu [Сергею Есенину], Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926, 15 pp.
• Transcripts of 28 books (torrent)

LEF 1 (1923), PDF, HTML.

Editor

• with Osip Brik, LEF, 7 numbers, Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923-25.
• with Sergei Tretyakov, Novyi LEF, 24 numbers, Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927-28.

Contributions in collections

• Poshechina obshestvennomu vkusu [Пощечина общественному вкусу], Moscow: G.L. Kuzmin, [1913].
• Vesennee kontragentstvo muz [Весеннее контрагентство муз], Moscow: D. Burlyuk & Sam.Vermel, 1915.
• Strelets [Стрелец], [Moscow]: Strelets, 1915.
• Rzhanoe slovo: Revolyutsionnaya chrestomatiya futuristov [Ржаное слово: Революционная хрестоматия футуристов], intro. A. Lunacharsky, [Moscow]: IMO, 1918.
• Liren [Лирень], Moscow, 1920.
• 8 collections in HTML.

Selected works and translations

• Polnoe sobranie sochineniy v 12 t. [Полное собрание сочинений в 12 т.], Moscow: Gos. izd-vo chudozh. lit., 1939-49.
• Polnoe sobranie sochineniy: V 13 t. [Полное собрание сочинений: В 13 т.], Moscow: Chudozh. lit., 1955-1961, PDF/1, PDF/2, HTML.
• Antologia poética. Estudo biográfico e tradução, trans. Emilio Carrera Guerra, Leitura, 1963; 3rd ed., São Paulo: Max Limonad, 1981; 6th ed., 1987, 198 pp. (in Brazilian Portuguese)
• Poemas, ed. & notes Boris Schnaiderman, trans. Augusto & Haroldo de Campos, Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1967, 134 pp; 7th ed., São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1997, 170 pp. (in Brazilian Portuguese). Review: Simmons, Jr. (1969, EN).
• The Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky, trans. Guy Daniels, intro. Robert Payne, New York: Washington Square Press, [1968], 274 pp. Review: Simmons, Jr. (1969).
• Poems, trans. Dorin Rottemberg, Moscow: Progress, 1972, 278 pp. (in English) [4]
• Memoirs and Essays, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1975, 196 pp. (in English)
• Selected Works in Three Volumes, Raduga, 1985f, PDF/1. (in English)
• Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry Of Vladimir Mayakovsky, trans. Andrey Kneller, Boston, 2008. (in English and Russian)
• La chinche. Comedia fantastica en nueve cuadros, trans. Jorge Segovia and Violetta Beck, Maldoror, 2009. (in Spanish)

Correspondence

• with Lilya Brik, Cartas de amor a Lili Brik (1917-1930), Ediciones de la Flor, 1976. (in Spanish)
• with Lilya Brik, Correspondence 1915-1930, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1982, 299 pp. [5]

Audio recordings

• Chitaet pyat stichotvoreniy [читает пять стихотворений]. All currently known voice recordings of Mayakovsky: "Gimn sude" [Гимн Судье]; "A vy mogli by?.." [А вы могли бы?..]; "Neobychaynoe priklyuchenie" [Необычайное приключение]; "Poslushayte!" [Послушайте!]; "Voenno-morskaya lyubov" [Военно-морская любовь]. 1920, Petrograd, Institut Zhivogo Slova [Институт Живого Слова]. ZIP.
• http://www.ubu.com/sound/mai.html

Literature

Kruchenykh, LEF agitki Mayakovskogo, Aseeva, Tretyakova, 1925, JPG, PDF.

Cover of Jakobson, Svyatopol-Mirskiy, Smert Vladimira Mayakovskogo, 1930. Photo by László Moholy-Nagy.

Kamensky, Yunost Mayakovskogo, 1931.

• A.E. Kruchenykh (А.Е. Крученых), LEF agitki Mayakovskogo, Aseeva, Tretyakova [ЛЕФ агитки Маяковского, Асеева, Третьякова], Moscow: Izd. Vseros. soyuza poetov, 1925, 61 pp, PDF. (Russian)

• Roman Jakobson, "O pokolenii, rastrativshem svoich poetov", in Jakobson, D. Svyatopol-Mirskiy, Smert Vladimira Mayakovskogo [Смерть Владимира Маяковского], Berlin: Petropolis, 1930. (Russian)
  • "Von einer Generation, die ihre Dichter vergeudethat", Slavische Rundschau 2 (1930), pp 481—495. (German)
  • "La génération qui a gaspillé ses poètes", in Questions de poétique, ed. Tzvetan Todorov, Paris: Seuil, 1973, pp 73—101. (French)
  • "On a Generation that Squandered Its Poets", in Major Soviet Writers: Essays in Criticism, ed. E. J. Brown, Oxford University Press, 1973, pp 7—32. (English)
  • El caso Maiakovski, trans. M.ª Angels Margarit, Icaria, 1977, 94 pp. (Spanish)
  • Una generazione che ha dissipato i suoi poeti. Il problema Majakovskij, Edizioni SE, 2004, 79 pp. (Italian)
  • A geração que esbanjou seus poetas, trans. Sonia Regina Martins Gonçalves, Cosac Naify, 2006, 96 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Vasily Kamensky (Василий Каменский), Yunost Mayakovskogo [Юность Маяковского], [Tiflis]: Zakkniga, [1931], 84 pp. (Russian)

• Andrey Sinyavskiy (Андрей Донатович Синявский), Osnovnye printsipy estetiki V.V. Mayakovskogo [Основные принципы эстетики В. В. Маяковского], 1950. (Russian)
• Angelo Maria Ripellino, Majakovskij e il teatro russo d'avanguardia, Giulio Einaudi, 1959, 286 pp. (Italian)
  • Maiakovski e o teatro de vanguarda, São Paulo: Pespectiva, 1971, 285 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• E.I. Naumov (Е.И. Наумов), V. V. Mayakovskiy: Seminariy [В. В. Маяковский: Семинарий], 4th ed., Leningrad: Gos. ucheb.-ped. izd-vo. Leningr. otd-nie, 1963, 444 pp. (Russian)
• Fernando Peixoto, Maiakovski. Vida e obra, Rio de Janeiro: Alvaro, 1969; 2nd ed., Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1979; 3rd ed., 1986, 234 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Boris Schnaiderman, A poética de Maiakovski, São Paulo: Pespectiva, 1971; 1984. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Bengt Jangfeldt, Majakovskij and Futurism, 1917-1921, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1976, 133 pp. Review: Barooshian (SEEJ 1977). (English)
• Vahan D. Barooshian, Brik and Mayakovsky, The Hague: Mouton, 1978, ix+157 pp. Reviews: Kemp-Welch (SS 1979), Lawton (SEEJ 1980). (English)
• V.A. Katyanyan (В.А. Катянян), Mayakovskiy: Chronika zhizni i deyatelnosti [Маяковский: Хроника жизни и деятельности], 5th ed., Moscow: Sovetskiy pisatel, 1985, 648 pp. (Russian)
• Roman Jakobson, Jakobson-budetljanin: sbornik materialov [Якобсон-будетлянин: сборник материалов], ed. Bengt Jangfeldt (Бенгт Янгфельдт), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1992, 185 pp. Review: Pyman (1993). (Russian)
  • My Futurist Years, trans. Stephen Rudy, ed. Bengt Jangfeldt, New York: Marsilio, 1997, 345 pp. Memoir. (English)
  • Meine futuristischen Jahre, trans. Brigitte van Kann, Berlin: Friedenauer Presse, 1999, 155 pp. (German)
• Chantal Sundaram, Manufacturing Culture: The Soviet State and the Mayakovsky Legend, 1930-1993, University of Toronto, 2000, 366 pp. Ph.D. dissertation. (English)
• Bengt Jangfeldt, Med livet som insats: Berättelsen om Vladimir Majakovskij och hans krets, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2007, 592 pp. Review: Koch (2007, EN). (Swedish)
  • Stavka - zhizn'. Vladimir Mayakovskiy i yego krug [Ставка - жизнь: Владимир Маяковский и его круг], trans. Asia Lavrusha, Kolibri, 2009, 638 pp. (Russian)
  • Een leven op scherp: De Legendarische Dichter Vladimir Majakovski 1893-1930, Balans, 2009, 544 pp. (Dutch)
  • لی‌لی و ماياكوفسكی, trans. علی شفیعی. (Persian)
  • Mayakovsky: A Biography, trans. Harry D. Watson, University of Chicago Press, 2014, 616 pp. [6] (English)
• more

Other

• Vasiliy Kamenskiy (Василий Каменский), Yunost Mayakovskogo (otryvok) [Юность Маяковского (отрывок)]. MP3.

See also

• LEF, Novyi LEF
• Russia#Avant-garde

Links

• Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow.
• Photographs of Mayakovsky
• Mayakovsky at Wikipedia