Karl Kantor is a famous philosopher, sociologist, culturologist, aesthetic, expert on the life and work of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Continuing the study of the tragic fate of a poetic genius, the author offers an innovative one – not only aesthetic, but also theologian -historiosophical analysis of the personality of the great Russian lyrics, epic, a panegyir and satirist of the 20th century.
The author of the book reveals the non -metaphoricality of Mayakovsky’s self -awareness as the “thirteenth apostle”, his organic development and implementation in his own work of teachings of the Old Testament prophets of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the commandments of Jesus Christ. The Russian poet appears in the book as the heir to the Christian lights of the Renaissance – Dante, Rabelais, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Cervantes. And at the same time – as the successor of Russian folklore and the traditions of Russian fiction. The author finds out the spiritual proximity of creative searches and the acquisitions of three giants of Russian poetry – Pushkin, Lermontov and Mayakovsky. The poet is shown in his movement from futurism to Tols …
Author
Kantor Karl Moiseevich
Editor
Samoilova E. N.
Publisher
Progress-Strandation, 2008
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