The Bedbug (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1929 and 1979
- 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
Places Discussed
*Tambov (1929). Russian city located about 260 miles southeast of Moscow that provides the play’s principal setting. Ivan Prisypkin, a former Communist Party member, moves among the working-class parts of this city in the year 1929 with casual familiarity. However, when he is thrust fifty years into the future, he is an alien who can have no place. Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Tambov is a generic provincial Soviet city, without any hint of the cultural riches of the actual city, which was the home of such eminent figures as Alexander Pushkin and Sergei...
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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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