Dialogue between the whiteface clown and the Auguste as a key to understanding a V. Mayakovsky’s collection of verse “Simple as moo”

The article represents a hypothesis according to which the entity of the second lifetime collection of verse “Simple as Moo” by Vladimir Mayakovsky is formed, particularly, by a special form of a dialogue between the points of view of the hero, which follows the pattern of a traditional dialogue between the Whiteface clown and the Auguste. This assumption is confirmed during the analysis of the collection as a whole. In this perspective, in the author's spotlight gets a special structure of lyrical hero. The paper demonstrates that the fragmentation and loss of lyrical subject’s consciousness at the same time create a unity of the collection. Revealed a paradoxical logic of intertextual connections allows making a final conclusion: it makes possible the coexistence in the collection belonging to different sorts and even the literary genres.