The Reader’s Response to N.N. Aseev’s Poem “Mayakovsky Begins”The Reader’s Response to N.N. Aseev’s Poem “Mayakovsky Begins”
Journal: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks
Year: 2023

In the second half of the 1930s N.N. Aseev worked on the poem “Mayakovsky begins.” A letter from a reader from Simferopol — N.M. Kovaneva (dated September 6, 1950) — was written after the appearance of new chapters of the poem in the magazine “Okt’abr’.” This letter is a response to Aseev’s poem and it is published for the first time. This very sincere and deeply emotional letter is of considerable interest, because it raises questions that worried readers and fans of V.V. Mayakovsky for years,