Mayakovsky

Japanese: マヤコーフスキー

A Russian (Soviet) poet. Born in Georgia, he joined the revolutionary movement from his childhood. He started the Russian Futurist movement at the Moscow Art School, and distinguished himself with long poems such as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and "The War and the World" (1917). After he accepted the October Revolution as "my revolution," he dominated the Soviet poetic scene with his energetic activities. He praised the world revolution and socialism in his dramatic poems "150,000,000" (1920) and "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1924), and showed a lyric image of the revolutionary age in his long poem "About This" (1923), and launched a scathing attack on bureaucracy in his plays "The Bedbug" (1929) and "The Bath" (1930). However, he became isolated in the Soviet society as it entered a period of stability. He committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol, partly due to an unhappy love affair. His last work was the long poem "At the Top of His Voice." He is one of the leading poets of 20th century Russian poetry.
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Japanese:

ロシア（ソ連）の詩人。ジョージア生れで，少年時代から革命運動に加わる。モスクワの美術学校でロシア未来派の運動を始め，長詩《ズボンをはいた雲》（1915年），《戦争と世界》（1917年）などで頭角を現し，十月革命を〈わたしの革命〉として受け入れてからは，精力的な活動でソビエト詩壇に君臨した。劇詩《150000000》（1920年），《ウラジーミル・イリイチ・レーニン》（1924年）などで世界革命と社会主義をたたえたほか，長詩《これについて》（1923年）では革命の時代の抒情の姿を示し，戯曲《南京虫》（1929年），《風呂》（1930年）では官僚主義に痛烈な攻撃を浴びせたが，安定期に入ったソビエト社会の中で孤立。不幸な恋愛もからんでピストル自殺した。絶筆は長詩《声をかぎりに》。20世紀ロシア詩を代表する詩人。
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