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Mayakovsky's Unsentimental Journeys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Charles A. Moser
Charles A. Moser*
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Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
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Vladimir Mayakovsky, who journeyed extensively during his lifetime and inserted many themes, sights, and sounds from abroad into his poetry, was a decidedly unsentimental traveller. Although at times he may have shed tears, they were not evoked by the same type of spectacle which would have activated the lachrymal glands of the illustrious Laurence Sterne, a man less acutely conscious of social injustice than Mayakovsky. Even before the Soviet poet commenced his actual travels he had been fascinated by foreign countries and had set forth the fancies which he wove about them in his poetry, notably in 150,000,000. The poems and prose sketches written as a direct result of his journeys abroad comprise perhaps one-tenth of his total literary output: the two twelve-volume editions of his work published in 1935-37 and in 1939-49 each reserved one volume for za granitsa.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1960 , pp. 85 - 100
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1960

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