Maiakovskii marginalia

[Alexandra Kirilcuk]

I don't know if this is what you're thinking of, but Khodasevich wrote a
famous and nasty "non-obituary" about Mayakovsky (entitled "O
Maiakovskom") in the Paris emigre newspaper _Vozrozhdenie_ on 24 April
1930. I don't have mine on hand right now, but I would be surprised if it
wasn't in one of the Khodasevich editions that have come out in recent
years.

John Malmstad has also written an article on that Khodasevich piece: see
his "Po povodu odnogo ne-nekrologa: Khodasevich o Maiakovskom." Sed'mye
tynianovskie chteniia: materialy dlia obsuzhdeniia. Tynianovskie sborniki
vol. 9. Riga-Moscow, 1995-96, 189-199.

Best,
Alexandra Kirilcuk


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Steven Hill wrote:

> Dear colleagues:
>
> In some Russian sources,  I have encountered tantalizingly brief references to an
> obituary article about V V Maiakovskii, supposedly published in a Paris emigre periodical
> after the poet's suicide in April  1930.  I can't recall the author's name, but it might have
> been Levidov.  [  In any case, definitely separate from Jakobson's famous, reprinted
> article, "Generation That Squandered Its Poets," which appeared at about the same
> time. ]
>
> As I recall, the wording of those tantalizing references tended to be very nasty -- i.e.,
> the (Soviet) commentators on Maiakovskii hated what the emigre author (Levidov?)
> supposedly had written about the "greatest Soviet poet."
>
> But I've never seen a reprint of the ACTUAL TEXT of this "slanderous" Parisian obituary,
> which for  some reason aroused the outrage of the (Soviet) Maiakovskii-scholars.
>
> Has the "slanderous" obituary perhaps  been reprinted in recent years, in any French or
> English or  Russian (post-Soviet)  publication?   -- If so,  a bibliogr. ref. would be much
> appreciated!
>
> Gratefully,
> Steven P Hill (University of Illinois, USA).
>
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