Release:
2025. Vol. 11. № 4 (44)About the authors:
Alexander V. Markov, Dr. Sci. (Philol.), Professor, Department of Cinema and Contemporary Art, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia; markovius@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6874-1073Abstract:
The article analyzes V. V. Mayakovsky’s book “How to Make Poems?”, framed in the Dostoevsky’s polyphonic novel principle, in which the poet views poetry as a production process subordinate to social demands and requiring systematic organization of resources. The study employs methods of receptive aesthetics, intertextual analysis, and a historical-cultural approach to reconstruct the connection between Mayakovsky’s poetics and Dostoevsky’s legacy. Mayakovsky emphasizes the creation of a collective body of interconnections that ensures the uninterrupted flow of poetic labor. His approach to poetics combines elements of productivism, social psychology, and scientific rationality, bringing his method closer to Pavlov’s ideas about the second signal system. Mayakovsky sees the poet as a creator of a general production skill capable of transforming reality through words. The article also explores the connection between Mayakovsky’s poetics and Dostoevsky’s ideas, particularly in the aspect of social psychology and the optics of duality, where epic contemplation and satirical self-reflection are combined. Mayakovsky’s book is presented as a socio-philosophical treatise, where the reception of formalism became possible only through special work with the imagery of the novel type.Keywords:
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