This memoir of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was written in 1939 - nine years after his suicide aged 36. It reveals a paradoxical character and also includes some verses by Mayakovsky not translated into English.
The Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was the author Elsa Triolet's first love. This memoir of him in was written in 1939 - nine years after his suicide aged 36. It reveals a paradoxical character: an enthusiastic womaniser who remained deeply in love with one woman until the day he died; a genius who often played the buffoon; a joyful extrovert so raw and prone to despair that he shot himself through the heart. This volume also includes some verses by Mayakovsky not translated into English.