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Автобиография «Я сам» написана Маяковским в 1922 году. Через шесть лет поэт продолжил её, доведя изложение событий до 1928 года. В таком виде она вошла в 1-й том десятитомного собрания его сочинений. Автобиография выдержана в полушутливом тоне и во многом носит полемический характер.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1928

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Vladimir Mayakovsky (Владимир Владимирович Маяковский) was born the last of three children in Baghdati, Russian Empire (now in Georgia) where his father worked as a forest ranger. His father was of Ukrainian Cossack descent and his mother was of Ukrainian descent. Although Mayakovsky spoke Georgian at school and with friends, his family spoke primarily Russian at home. At the age of 14 Mayakovsky took part in socialist demonstrations at the town of Kutaisi, where he attended the local grammar school. After the sudden and premature death of his father in 1906, the family — Mayakovsky, his mother, and his two sisters — moved to Moscow, where he attended School No. 5.

In Moscow, Mayakovsky developed a passion for Marxist literature and took part in numerous activities of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; he was to later become an RSDLP (Bolshevik) member. In 1908, he was dismissed from the grammar school because his mother was no longer able to afford the tuition fees.

Around this time, Mayakovsky was imprisoned on three occasions for subversive political activities but, being underage, he avoided transportation. During a period of solitary confinement in Butyrka prison in 1909, he began to write poetry, but his poems were confiscated. On his release from prison, he continued working within the socialist movement, and in 1911 he joined the Moscow Art School where he became acquainted with members of the Russian Futurist movement. He became a leading spokesman for the group Gileas (Гилея), and a close friend of David Burlyuk, whom he saw as his mentor.

The 1912 Futurist publication A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (Пощёчина общественному вкусу) contained Mayakovsky's first published poems: Night (Ночь) and Morning (Утро). Because of their political activities, Burlyuk and Mayakovsky were expelled from the Moscow Art School in 1914.
His work continued in the Futurist vein until 1914. His artistic development then shifted increasingly in the direction of narrative and it was this work, published during the period immediately preceding the Russian Revolution, which was to establish his reputation as a poet in Russia and abroad.

Mayakovsky was rejected as a volunteer at the beginning of WWI, and during 1915-1917 worked at the Petrograd Military Automobile School as a draftsman. At the onset of the Russian Revolution, Mayakovsky was in Smolny, Petrograd. There he witnessed the October Revolution.

After moving back to Moscow, Mayakovsky worked for the Russian State Telegraph Agency (ROSTA) creating — both graphic and text — satirical Agitprop posters. In 1919, he published his first collection of poems Collected Works 1909-1919 (Все сочиненное Владимиром Маяковским). In the cultural climate of the early Soviet Union, his popularity grew rapidly. As one of the few Soviet writers who were allowed to travel freely, his voyages to Latvia, Britain, Germany, the United States, Mexico and Cuba influenced works like My Discovery of America (Мое открытие Америки, 1925). He also travelled extensively throughout the Soviet Union.

The relevance of Mayakovsky's influence cannot be limited to Soviet poetry. While for years he was considered the Soviet poet par excellence, he also changed the perceptions of poetry in wider 20th century culture. His political activism as a propagandistic agitator was rarely understood and often looked upon unfavourably by contemporaries, even close friends like Boris Pasternak. Near the end of the 1920s, Mayakovsky became increasingly disillusioned with the course the Soviet Union was taking under Joseph Stalin: his satirical plays The Bedbug (Клоп, 1929) and The Bathhouse (Баня, 1930), which deal with the Soviet philistinism and bureaucracy, illustrate this development.

On the evening of April 14, 1930, Mayakovsky shot himself.

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“Primero a la vida hay que transformar, / y recién después,/ podremos cantarla./ Este tiempo / es difícil para la pluma,/ pero sigan / ustedes, / inválidos y mutilados,/ ¿dónde,/ cuándo, cual de los valerosos / optó / por un camino fácil y trillado? / ¡Marchen! / para que el tiempo / detrás/ estalle como una granada. / La alegría / y nuestro planeta / están mal avenidos./ Habrá que / arrancar / la alegría / a los días venideros. / En esta vida / morir / no es difícil. / Es mucho más difícil/ edificar la vida”

Maikovski tk mucho. Es una poesía tan suya, tan nueva todavía hoy, que casi habría que darle otro nombre. Terrible e inspiradora, sobre todo una fuerza inmensa. Una mezcla del talento del genio y de lo fructífero del momento histórico -y poético- que le tocó vivir, entre la revolución y el formalismo ruso. Es un choque escalofriante! no me extraña que de ese mejunje saliese maiakovski, pero a la vez es un milagro tener alguien que recoja tan bien en su figura su parcela de tiempo, de historia.

Trozos de mis poemas favoritos de esta selección:

Vladimir Maiakovski: “Como podrían comprender, vosotros, / por qué yo, tan sereno,/ con temporal de burlas / llevo mi alma en la fuente / como la comida para el futuro./ Corriendo como una lágrima inútil/ por la mejilla de las plazas, sin afeitar/ soy/ posiblemente/ el último poeta.”

“Y yo, impávido/ llevé a los siglos el odio hacia la luz diurna/ con el alma tensa como los nervios del cable (…) les mostraré/ descubriendo por medio de las palabras / simples como el mugido / nuestras almas nuevas / que zumban como los arcos voltaicos de los faroles. / Les tocaré solamente la cabeza con un dedo/ y crecerán sus labios/ para los enormes besos,/ y la lengua será natal para todos los pueblos” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flauta- Columna vertebral: “Si Tú existes, verdaderamente, / Dios, / Dios mío/ si el tapiz de las estrellas fue tejido por Ti, / si la tortura de este dolor, / multiplicada día a día/ Tú me enviaste, señor;/ entonces, como juez, colócate la cadena./ Espera mi visita. / Soy puntual, no tardaré ni un solo día.

La nube en pantalones: “¡Pero no pueden, como yo, darse vuelta al / revés/ para transformarse enteros en unos labios!”

¡Lilichka!: “Acuérdate, / detrás de esta ventana/ por vez primera / acariciaba, exaltado, tus manos./ Y hoy estás sentada aquí,/ con el corazón cubierto de hierro.”
“No me tiraré en el hueco de la escalera,/ ni tomaré el veneno,/ contra la sien no podré apretar el gatillo. / Sobre mí,/ excepto tu mirada/ no tiene poder el filo de un cuchillo” !!!!!!!!!!! k fuerte esto

Sobre los poetas: ¿¡Qué es la poesía?! / Una pequeñez. / Una broma. / Y a mí esta broma me horriza.”

Usted se fue - A Serguei Esenin: “Si tú supiste decir tales cosas/ que nadie en el mundo supo decir alguna vez”

“Primero a la vida hay que transformar, / y recién después,/ podremos cantarla./ Este tiempo / es difícil para la pluma,/ pero sigan / ustedes, / invalidas y mutilados,/ ¿dónde,/ cuándo, cual de los valerosos / opto / por un camino fácil y trillado? / ¡Marchen! / para que el tiempo / detrás/ estalle como una granada. / La alegría / y nuestro planeta / están mal avenidos./ Habrá que / arrancar / la alegría / a los días venideros. / En esta vida / morir / no es difícil. / Es mucho más difícil/ edificar la vida”

Cómo hacer los versos: “Mi técnica es,…caminar balanceando los brazos y murmurando, casi mugiendo, sin palabras, acortando los pasos para no molestar al mugido, o mugiendo más rápido para coincidir con el ritmo de los pasos. (…) ¿De dónde proviene este sordo ruido primordial, el ritmo?; no sabemos. Para mí es cualquier repetición de un sonido, de un ruido, el balanceo del cuerpo, o toda la reiteración rítmica de un hecho que yo destaco por medio de un sonido. El ritmo nos puede ser dado por el ritmo del mar o por una mucama que cierra de golpe la puerta todas las mañanas y luego camina lentamente arrastrando las zapatillas y repitiéndose el sonido en mi conciencia. Hasta la rotación de la tierra, en mi cabeza como en un negocio que vende material didáctico, alterna y se relaciona inevitablemente con el soplo del viento silbante.”
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December 5, 2022
"Kendimi boşluğa atmayacağım,
baldıran içmeyeceğim,
dayamayacağım şakağıma namluyu.
Hiçbir bıçağın ağzı
iz bırakmaz üzerimde
senin bakışlarından başka."
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October 23, 2022
1917 Sovyet Devrimi'nin önde gelen liderlerinden biri de Şair Vladimir Mayakovski idi! Mayakovski, 1893 yılında Gürcistan'da dünyaya gelmiş, sonra ailesi ile Moskova'ya yerleşmişti, Moskova'da 1905 Devrimi sonrası edebiyat eğitimi gören Mayakovski, daha yirmili yaşlarında şiirlerini, yazılarını yayınlıyor, Birinci Dünya Savaşı yıllarında ünleniyordu, 1917 Şubat Devrimi'nde Menşevik liderlerle çalışan Mayakovski Bolşevik Parti'de Lenin'in liderliğinde 1917 Sovyet Ekim Devrimi'nin örgütlenmesinde rol oynuyordu, şiirleriyle, yazılarıyla, tiyatro oyunlarıyla, afişleriyle, mitingleriyle! "Ben Kimim?" kitabı ile Mayakovski, "Ben, Kendim" şiirindeki gibi hayatı, eserleri ile ilgili bilgileri okurlarıyla açıklıkla tartışıyor. Mayakovski, Puşkin'le başlayan modern Rus Şiiri'nde bir devrim yapmaya 1917 Sovyet Ekim Devrimi'nin, Bolşevik Parti'nin, Lenin'in Kültür Devrimi programı ile uyumlu bir yönde, kararlılığını koruyor, şiir sanatının yapısı ile oynuyor, ritm, sözdizimi, dizelerin sıralanışı, şiir öznesinin sesi, şiir felsefesi ile yeni bir şiir kurmaya yöneliyor, Puşkin'i aşmayı öneriyor - 1917 Sovyet Ekim Devrimi'nin 1825 Dekambrist İsyanı'nı aştığını şiirle göstermek istiyor. Mayakovski, Puşkin'i "1825 Dekambrist İsyanı'nın Şairi" ilân ederken, kendisini de "1917 Sovyet Ekim Devrimi'nin Şairi" olarak ilân ediyor, "Lenin Destanı"nı öyle yazıyor!
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