Воскресение Маяковского

This book decisively overturns all our usual ideas about the most famous poet of the twentieth century. The author, together with the reader, seems to go through all the main pages of Mayakovsky’s life and work for the first time and comes to independent and unexpected conclusions. The book was written in 1983, but even today it amazes with the boldness of its judgments, and not only about the poet, literature and creativity, but also about the life of the country and society. It successfully combines depth of thought, lively humor, sharpness of vision, dynamic, vivid style of presentation - and the fascination of a detective story.