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Chargement... Med livet som insats : berättelsen om Vladimir Majakovskij och hans kretspar Bengt Jangfeldt
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A superb biography of a good poet but pathetic human being who was (as those who knew him best said) doomed to suicide; the people around him were by and large as unpleasant a collection of human beings as I have had the displeasure to read about, and I was relieved when I finished it. If you want to know about Mayakovsky, though, this is the book to read. In essentie gedijdt elk menselijk wezen in zijn specifieke "Zeitgeist". Omgevingsfactoren accelereren specifieke dominante karaktereigenschappen....Om maar te zeggen dat het culturele alfa-dier V.V.Majakovski, 1 meter 90 lang, schoenmaat 46, verwoed gokker, notoire liefhebber van vrouwen met pit, maar zelf met duidelijke bindingsangsten.......het niet langer gerekt heeft dan zijn 36ste levensjaar, moment waarop hij er zelf een einde aan maakte. Zijn kracht dreef op de "pulse-of-time" die hij zo waanzinnig mooi in een tirade van verzen kon gieten en performen als een volleerde "stand-up"; meer specifiek zijn bloei ontplooide zich in de cruciale 1917-revolutiejaren die hem voorgoed lotsverbonden maakte met het bolsjevieke, uiteindelijk geperverteerde levensideaal........wat hem fataal noodlottig werd.... Men leze deze zweedse biografie als een nauwgezette reconstructie van een dichtersleven "op het scherp van de snede" zoals de titel aangeeft; een leven omringd door taboes tot heel vooraan de 21ste eeuw, wanneer wellicht bij het verschijnen van dit boek de laatste controverses omtrent Majakovski en de naweeën van de "Sovjet-kanker" opgelost raakten. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, passion, and--most important--poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of the Russian Revolution and the emerging Soviet State, Mayakovsky was championed by Stalin after his death and enshrined as a quasi-official Soviet poet, a position that led to undeserved neglect among Western literary scholars even as his influence on other poets has remained powerful. With Mayakovsky, Bengt Jangfeldt offers the first comprehensive biography of Mayakovsky, revealing a troubled man who was more dreamer than revolutionary, more political romantic than hardened Communist. Jangfeldt sets Mayakovsky's life and works against the dramatic turbulence of his times, from the aesthetic innovations of the pre-revolutionary avant-garde to the rigidity of Socialist Realism and the destruction of World War I to the violence--and hope--of the Russian Revolution, through the tightening grip of Stalinist terror and the growing disillusion with Russian communism that eventually led the poet to take his life. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The intellectual cultural climate in 1920s Russia was a very explosive time, when several small groups of young, agitated Russians questioned, destroyed and leaped from the old climate in a political atmosphere where even God was refused and denied. The Russian futurists craved something else than the everyday porridge that stated that Rembrandt's paintings, Mozart's music and The Bible in writing were the epitome of art, and in the process wanted to reinvent themselves completely by questioning these standards and themselves. Among all of the Russian poets, Mayakovsky's texts seemingly stand solitary and often absolutely brilliant, not only floating far beyond his country-people, but all previous poets across the globe.
Jangfeldt goes far by being fluent in Russian. As such, he has himself translated (with aid) Mayakovsky 's poetry into Swedish, and has since decades personally interviewed people who knew Mayakovsky and has written several works on him. He's accessed previously censored state files on Mayakovsky and drawn his own conclusions on many events throughout Mayakovsky's life, painstakingly delivering a very subtle, simply put, yet desirably complex picture of a man plagued and blessed through extreme throes in all aspects of his life.
Mayakovsky's abilities to reinvent language and stake his own claim through all types of media - poetry, plays, copy, slogans, and letters - are featured here. The same is said for his somewhat nonsensical political statements, but you can't have it all, can you?
From his life as a young boy in the middle of Russian nowhere, to an aspiring career as an artist to developing an interest in poetry, his humble beginnings gently explode as he reaches adolescence and then grows into a manboy, forever trapped as a seventeen-year-old, according to Viktor Sjklovsky. Thing is, I think Mayakovsky never allowed himself to grow stale, which is a mantra he often repeated in different forms, not least in his eccentric relationship with Lili and Osip Brik.
Mayakovsky loved a few things in life, and went beyond every barrier to live those things in every aspect, at times threatening to destroy the people around him in the process. Still, he prevailed in a way, even though his ending is the saddest part of his tale.
This book is worth purchasing in any available language, and will be re-read repeatedly by myself throughout life. It's not heavy, it's not light, but is very well-written, long and so fantastically delivered that it feels short, despite its near-600-pages. Nothing stopped it, and there is no filler; most of what's in this book - which did happen, I sometimes had to remind myself during my reading - is so jagged and at the same time polished, it felt like having a really brilliant, laid-back yet intellectual conversation with somebody who's had a long journey, teaching me a few things in the process.
To quote Mayakovsky: "I love!" ( )