I Myself. Autobiography

"What can I set against the aesthetic of old junk that has piled up on me? Won’t the revolution require from me serious schooling? I went to see my then party comrade—Medvedev. I want to create socialist art. Sergei laughed for a long time: it’s too weak a gut.

I think, though, he underestimated my guts."

The autobiography of Vladimir Mayakovsky, written with the self-irony typical of the poet. Vividness of feeling not only across the main stages of the author’s path, but also across his era.