Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

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Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology

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Article

Name: The Real Life of Maurice Laporte: On One of Mayakovsky’s Later Poems

Authors: Lekmanov O. А., Ustinov A. B. (Moscow, Russia, San Francisco, USA)

Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation; San Francisco, USA

In the section Literary Plot and Historical Commentary

Issue 1, 2015	Pages 170-180
UDK: 82-1	DOI:

Abstract: The article explicates the plot of «A Poem about the Sold Veal» (1928) by Vladimir Mayakovsky. The authors recreate poet's personal circumstances as well as his take on the political biography of the poem's protagonist, Maurice Laporte (1901–1987), the founder of the Komsomol. The article establishes connections between Mayakovsky's poetic production of the 1920s and his early futurist poems.

Keywords: mayakovsky, laporte, lilya brik, satire, youth communist movement.

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