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Mayakovsky’s revolutionary political satire turns the biblical journey through the Ark, Hell and Paradise into a street-show-like drama of the Clean and Unclean. Combining mass-rally language, farce and poetic digression, it imagines the people’s passage toward a Promised Land and their ultimate victory.
In 1930, inventor Chudakov builds a time machine while battling Soviet bureaucracy. A visitor from 2030 invites virtuous people to the Communist future, but officials including Pobedonosikov are thrown off the machine.
On his wedding day in 1929, Ivan Prisypkin is frozen with a bedbug and revived fifty years later in a utopian Soviet society that has eliminated poverty and familiar vices. Treated as a relic, he becomes a human exhibit at a zoo.
In an avant-garde verse tragedy, a poet-protagonist confronts the urban crowd and its coming revolt of things, presenting himself as a new prophet amid grotesque bodies, electric-age symbols and the poor city's damaged inhabitants.
Mayakovsky’s revolutionary political satire turns the biblical journey through the Ark, Hell and Paradise into a street-show-like drama of the Clean and Unclean. Combining mass-rally language, farce and poetic digression, it imagines the people’s passage toward a Promised Land and their ultimate victory.
In 1930, inventor Chudakov builds a time machine while battling Soviet bureaucracy. A visitor from 2030 invites virtuous people to the Communist future, but officials including Pobedonosikov are thrown off the machine.
On his wedding day in 1929, Ivan Prisypkin is frozen with a bedbug and revived fifty years later in a utopian Soviet society that has eliminated poverty and familiar vices. Treated as a relic, he becomes a human exhibit at a zoo.
In an avant-garde verse tragedy, a poet-protagonist confronts the urban crowd and its coming revolt of things, presenting himself as a new prophet amid grotesque bodies, electric-age symbols and the poor city's damaged inhabitants.