As Jean Genet said: “One is not an artist without a great misfortune involved.” Mayakovsky was very unhappy. First because of him, or let’s say because of his awkwardness, the awkwardness of a fiery young man. The first game of
Vladimir Mayakovsky his name is Vladimir Mayakovsky. In his poem The Man, he speaks of Vladimir Mayakovsky in the third person. All this led to ridicule. Like any narcissist, Mayakovsky was unable to understand them and in response he developed the idea that he was a suffering Christ.
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He was a futurist, Maïakovsky, and we know the taste for brutality that this school had. In Italy many futurists have become fascists. Mayakovsky quickly became disillusioned with the Revolution. He killed himself with a revolver shot. Red, blood flowed. The Revolution made fun of it. He had to murder many others, poets. Yesenin, Mandelshtam, Bergelson…
In the end, Mayakovsky’s boast was right. He is better known now than some Soviet bureaucrat and assassin. It’s not because of his suicide, oh no, that would give too much room for death. It’s thanks to another red thing: his poetry. Mayakovsky’s higher ideal was there.
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