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Bugs!: Three Plays by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Green Integer)
Bugs Three Plays by Vladimir Mayakovsky - Green Integer Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky Shortly before his death, the great translator Paul Schmidt sent Green Integer the third of three plays he had translated from the Russian of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Schmidt had intended to include the fourth of Mayakovsky's plays, Mystery Bouffe, but he died before he could complete it. The three plays included in this volume-A Tragedy<... more »/i> (reproduced with the original typography), The Bathtub and Bugs!-give strong testament to Mayakovsky's joyous satiric writing and Schmidt's great skills as a translator. These plays perhaps reveal Mayakovsky as the outrageous storyteller and stunning practitioner of language which-along with the writings of Velemir Khlebnikov and others-utterly changed Russian literature in the early twentieth century.« less