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My discovery of America / Vladimir Mayakovsky ; translated by Neil Cornwell.
Language: English Original language: Russian Series: Modern voicesPublication details: London : Hesperus, 2005.Description: xviii, 138 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1843914085
- 9781843914082
- PG 3476 .M312 M39 2005
Contents:
Review: "Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.
Foreword / Colum McCann -- My discovery of America -- Mexico -- New York -- America -- Departure -- How I made her laugh -- Three poems about America.
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Translated from the Russian.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-136).
Foreword / Colum McCann -- My discovery of America -- Mexico -- New York -- America -- Departure -- How I made her laugh -- Three poems about America.
"Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.
Translated from the Russian.
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