Mayakovsky: The poet of the revolution

A leader of the 20th-century poetic avant-garde, mobilized and acclaimed by the revolution, Mayakovsky bore within himself the marks of the social experiment that began in 1917. He lived in a period of unbridled enthusiasm, a complete belief in the future. Despite all his misconceptions, his brief life unfolded during one of the glorious moments in the birth of modern art. A period of a wealth of protagonists perhaps surpassed only by Paris at the time. In Mayakovsky: The Poet of the Revolution, fellow poet Aleksander Mikhailov describes not only the trajectory of this icon, but also the history of his generation.