О возможном адресате стихотворения В.В. Маяковского «Марксизм — оружие, огнестрельный метод. Применяй умеючи метод этот!» (1926)

Новое литературное обозрение. 2025. № 5(195). С. 184–194.

Замятина О. В.

Zamyatina’s article is devoted to deciphering the figure of “Styopy” - one of the poets-addressees of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem «Marxism is a weapon, a firearm method. Use this method skillfully!» («Marksizm — oruzhie, ognestrel'nyj metod. Primenjaj umejuchi metod jetot!») (1926). The prototype of the pseudo-poet “Styopa” could have been the Soviet literary functionary and classic of socialist realist poetry Stepan Shchipachev, who in the 1920s realized himself as an epigone for Mayakovsky. At the same time, the article reflects on the general principles of the poetics of Mayakovsky’s artistic world through the awareness of how the fact of rejection of a specific poetic figure becomes for the poet a reason for a complexly organized artistic statement, the essence of which goes far beyond the invective addressed to a specific addressee.

Keywords: поэзия, V. V. Mayakovsky, В. В. Маяковский, periodicals of the 1920s, regional avant-garde, epigonism, reconstruction of events, периодика 1920-х, региональный авангард, эпигонство, реконструкция событий