Reconstructing Mayakovsky an web based novel
Check out Illya Szilak’s new on-line novel “Reconstructing Mayakovsky.” Set in the future, the novel revisits the past to make sense of the chaotic present. Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of thirty-six, the novel imagines a world where uncertainty and tragedy have finally been eliminated through technology. Like the novel, the site uses appropriated objects (image, sound, text) and combines elements of historical fiction, science fiction, poetry, and the detective novel, to tell the story of Mayakovsky in a radically different way.
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