The suicide of Mayakovsky
Jakobson, Russian Formalism and On the generation that spent its poets
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2019.158757Keywords:
Roman Jakobson, Russian formalism, On the generation that squandered its poets, BiographismAbstract
This paper presents a bibliographical review of the literary criticism movement known as Russian Formalism (1915-1916) and one of its most prominent theorists, Roman Jakobson (1896-1982). After a brief historical and biographical survey, we analyzed the work On the Generation that Spent its Poets (1931), written by Jakobson after the suicide of his friend, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The analysis aimed to verify how Jakobson, in his comments about the poems of Mayakovsky, brought to his interpretation biographical matters of the poet, especially his suicide. Taking into account that the first phase of Russian Formalism did not allow the practice of biographism, we understand that Jakobson broke with some methodological paradigms of the movement, leading it to a new phase.
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