Volume 27, Number 9 · May 29, 1980
His Neighbor's Wife
By Helen Muchnic
I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik
by Ann Charters, by Samuel Charters
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 398 pp., $17.50
Brik and Mayakovsky
by Vahan D. Barooshian
Mouton (Slavistic Printings and Reprintings, 301), 157 pp., $30.00 (paper)
In 1922 Mayakovsky prefaced an autobiographic sketch with the following remark: 'I am a poet. This is what makes me interesting.' Lili and Osip Brik might have said: 'We were friends of Mayakovsky. This is what makes us interesting.' He spent almost half his life, fifteen of his thirty-six years, with them. His greatest love poems were dedicated to Lili Brik; her husband was his closest friend. Theirs was an extraordinarily complex relationship of love, friendship, and intellectual interests.
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