The Bedbug (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1929
- Setting: Tambov, Soviet Union
- Genres: Satire, Drama
- Subjects: 1970’s, Class conflict, Communism or communists, Middle classes, Future, 1920’s, Individuality, Corruption, Soviet Union or Soviets, Relics or sacred objects
- Locales: Tambov, Soviet Union
Characters Discussed
Ivan Prisypkin (prih-SIHP- kihn), alias Pierre Skripkin, a former worker and Communist Party member. A man with philistine values and tastes, intent on improving his social status, Prisypkin pretentiously adopts the French name Pierre and abandons his working-class girlfriend, Zoya, to marry Elzevira, a member of the petit bourgeoisie. Amid the drunken revelry of his wedding celebration, the house burns down. All the bodies of the wedding party are recovered except Prisypkin’s. Fifty years later, when Prisypkin’s frozen body is discovered in an...
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Vladimir Mayakovsky (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Poetry)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Drama)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Dictionary of World Biography)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Censorship)
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