Life and stanzas of Anatoly Mariengof. Prilepin Z.

The poet Anatoly Mariengof (1897-1962), the modernist, the revolutionary eccentric, the master of shocking, the founder of the “Order of the Imazhinists”, is known mainly as the author of the memoir “Roman without lies” (1927) about friendship with Yesenin. And now, almost a century later, “Roman...” is polemically worried about the literary public (“lies without a novel”, “Trojan horse of Yesenin’s reputation”, etc.). Our nihilists ranked the work of Mariengof himself to the forever forbidden. Zakhar Prilepin cleans his biography of rumors/speculation, tries to objectively answer the question that the poet himself asked: “What is the earth, which country am I a child? What tribe is the rebellious son? ”.

introduces readers to the versatile creative heritage of not only the poet, but also a prose writer, playwright, whose plays are now in theaters - for example,“ Jester Balakirev ”. His family “drama” of the same-lover-Rove-scandalist, and personal blows of fate, does not bypass... The biography of Mariengof is supplemented by a selection of his chosen poems. This book, written brightly, concisely, boldly, without one -sided generalizations, will undoubtedly expand the reader's idea of ​​early -Soviet literature. In addition, Z. Prilepin prepares to print the biography of S. Yesenin - and there can really be a novel without lies.