Group of three important books about the poet. 1. SPERANSKII, V. D. Mayakovskii i Futurism [Mayakovsky and Futurism]. Moscow: "MIR," 1925. 93 pp. Original tan wrappers. 2. ASEEV, NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH. 1889-1963. Mayakovskii nachinaetsya [Mayakovsky Begins]. Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1940. 140 pp. Original cloth-backed boards. 3. SHKLOVSKII, VIKTOR BORISOVICH. 1893-1984. O Mayakovskom [About Mayakovsky]. Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1940. 224 pp. Original brown boards. When V.V. Mayakovsky committed suicide in 1930, he was so loved by the Russians that over 1,500,000 people came out to bid him good-bye at his funeral. Lenin never liked his poetry, but Stalin reportedly said, "Indifference to [Mayakovsky's] memory is a crime." On that one point Stalin and Trotsky agreed. "Without exaggeration it can be said that Mayakovsky had the spark of genius," Trotsky wrote after the poet took his own life. "But his was not a harmonious talent. After all, where could artistic harmony come from in these decades of catastrophe, across the unsealed chasm between two epochs? In Mayakovsky's work the summits stand side by side with abysmal lapses." These three volumes are further appreciations of the gravely lamented poet's unique contribution to Russian literature.
Group of three important books about the poet. 1. SPERANSKII, V. D. Mayakovskii i Futurism [Mayakovsky and Futurism]. Moscow: "MIR," 1925. 93 pp. Original tan wrappers. 2. ASEEV, NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH. 1889-1963. Mayakovskii nachinaetsya [Mayakovsky Begins]. Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1940. 140 pp. Original cloth-backed boards. 3. SHKLOVSKII, VIKTOR BORISOVICH. 1893-1984. O Mayakovskom [About Mayakovsky]. Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1940. 224 pp. Original brown boards. When V.V. Mayakovsky committed suicide in 1930, he was so loved by the Russians that over 1,500,000 people came out to bid him good-bye at his funeral. Lenin never liked his poetry, but Stalin reportedly said, "Indifference to [Mayakovsky's] memory is a crime." On that one point Stalin and Trotsky agreed. "Without exaggeration it can be said that Mayakovsky had the spark of genius," Trotsky wrote after the poet took his own life. "But his was not a harmonious talent. After all, where could artistic harmony come from in these decades of catastrophe, across the unsealed chasm between two epochs? In Mayakovsky's work the summits stand side by side with abysmal lapses." These three volumes are further appreciations of the gravely lamented poet's unique contribution to Russian literature.
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