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The monograph reveals the ontological fundamental principle of the “incompleteness” of Mayakovsky’s lyrical speaker while considering new for Russian lyrics conditions of the existence of the speaker and characterizing the model of the relation to the world that replaced for Mayakovsky the traditional lyrical forms of “completed” world model. Th e peculiarities of the relationship between the author and the speaker as well as the speaker and the “other” in Mayakovsky’s lyrics are substantiated by Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept. The nature of Mayakovsky’s tragic maximalism is reconsidered through Bakhtin’s philosophy of responsibility and the collisions of the formation of Mayakovsky’s lyrical speaker in his early works are analyzed with special attention paid to the ontological essence of epatage. The present work also characterizes forms of attraction and possibilities to connect the Mayakovsky’s lyrical speaker to the personifications of harmony at different stages of the poet’s work and analyzes the internal and external conflicts of the lyrical speaker in Mayakovsky’s end-of-life work period which determined the grotesque image of the lyrical subject.
The book is addressed to philologists, graduate students, students of the humanities, as well as for all those who are interested in the work of Mayakovsky’s creative heritage.