Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors by Irina Evdokimova;Slav N. Gratchev;Margarita Marinova;

Author:Irina Evdokimova;Slav N. Gratchev;Margarita Marinova;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Authors, Soviet – Interviews, Artists – Soviet Union – Interviews, Russian – 20th century – Interviews, Soviet Union – Intellectual life – 1917–1970, Soviet Union – History
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DIALOGUE 4

With Roman Jakobson

on 21 August 1967*

Victor Duvakin: Roman Osipovich,1 could you please tell me everything you remember about your acquaintance with Mayakovsky in as much detail as possible. You should rest assured that whatever you choose to share will not be published. I am not planning to write a biography; I don’t have time for that right now, though, I must confess, I would love to do it.

I am working for the twenty-first century, and precisely for that reason I value my work so much. Because I can finally do something that I have dreamed of doing for a long time now.

Once I read somewhere how someone in 1900 had come across a peasant woman who had personally met Pushkin,2 and I thought then: the last witnesses are leaving us.

Your visit here [to Moscow] and our meeting today, that’s such a gift, arranged by Vyacheslav Ivanov.3

I will not be conducting the usual kind of interview. You will not be tied down by anything, and I will not bombard you with questions. Just tell me everything you remember about my main interest here [Mayakovsky], and if there is something that I will need to clarify, I’ll ask you, if you don’t mind. I have plenty of tape. [He chuckles.]

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