Mayakovsky in Latin America, 1930–1940

Abstract

The article is devoted to the reception of V. Mayakovsky’s life and work in LatinThe article is devoted to the reception of V. Mayakovsky’s life and work in LatinAmerica and is accompanied by three pieces from Latin Americas press (first publishedin the Russian translation) that represent the early stage of this long process.The following basic factors that helped to include Mayakovsky’s legacy into the contextof another culture are being defined: 1) the Russian revolution of 1917; 2) intermediators,first of all, the Russian diaspora and interpreters; 3) affinity to theavant-garde movement; 4) personal contacts with foreign writers and artists.

Keywords

• latin america
• mayakovsky
• reception
• d. vygodsky
• c. vallejo
• b. abramson
• a. candido
• a. bonavides
• l. guerrero
• b. schneiderman