Il defunto odiava i pettegolezzi

[Autom. eng. transl.] The volume reconstructs the circumstances of the death of V. Mayakovskij on the basis of the testimonies of contemporaries, of the newspapers of the time, of the documents that emerged from the archives from the late 1980s, etc. The research sheds new light on the literary and moral climate of the era in which the Stalinist regime definitively consolidated itself. A large Regest gives an account of all the sources used. New translations of Majkovskij's works accompany the text.