The Bedbug (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1929 and 1979
- Setting: Tambov, Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Ivan Prisypkin, Elzevir Davidovna, Rosalie Pavlovna, Zoya Beryozkina, Oleg Bard
- 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
The Story:
In a State Department store in Tambov, a central Russian town, in 1929, Ivan Prisypkin (otherwise known as Pierre Skripkin), a former Party member, former worker, and now the fiancé of Elzevir Davidovna Renaissance, accompanied her mother, Rosalie Pavlovna, and a neighboring houseowner, Oleg Bard, on a shopping spree in preparation for the wedding. Salespeople were hawking their wares, and Prisypkin was buying everything because his house had to be like a horn of plenty and his future children must be brought up to be refined. His future mother-in-law worried about...
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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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