Russian Literature by Catriona Kelly

Author:Catriona Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2011-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)— a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-twentieth century Russian Futurism—is shown here with Marxist revolutionary Anatoli Vasilevich Lunacharsky (left), the first Soviet People’s Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture and education. Mayakovsky was a propagandist for the Russian side in World War I, and then an architect of early Soviet propaganda.

Suddenly I see

between me and the window

a stick-man move.

Staggering and sliding.

The stick-man has a horse’s head.

Onward he—it, slides.

Into its own nostrils it has stuck

its own fingers:

three fingers, maybe two.

Flies squat round the open eyes.

From the side of its neck

hangs a vein,

scattering drops on the streets that freeze blackly where they ooze. I look and look at the crawling shade: shuddering from an unbearable certainty: this half-man, half-beast must be a figment of my mind.

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