Pro Eto

Nearly eight decades after his death, the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky still remains one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His long poem, Pro Eto, written in 1923, is a largely autobiographical work in which love, passion and politics intertwine, presented here in a powerful new translation.

This bilingual volume also contains Alexander Rodchenko's extraordinary photomontages, reproduced in colour for the first time n British edition, which run throughout the text and illuminate Mayakovsky's narrative.

Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. Part love poem, part political diatribe and the most autobiographical of Mayakovsky's works, this title confirms Mayakovsky as one of the towering figures of Russian literature.