blog: Reconstructing Mayakovsky: a novel of the future

I invite you to explore the website for a new novel Reconstructing Mayakovsky.

http://www.reconstructingmayakovsky.com

Set
in the future, the novel revisits the past to make
sense of the chaotic present. Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the
Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of
thirty-six, the novel imagines a world where uncertainty and tragedy
have finally been eliminated through technology. Like the novel, the
site uses appropriated objects (image, sound, text) and combines
elements of historical fiction, science fiction, poetry, and the
detective novel, to tell the story of Mayakovsky in a radically
different way.

"Illya uses a variety of medias and methods, including manifestos,
texts, animations, podcasts, music, and data visualisations. The result
is a engrossing multilayered digital ‘novel’, well worthy of the artist who
inspired it." Chris Joseph, digital writer, co-author of Inanimate Alice

If you
enjoy it, I hope you'll consider featuring it or reviewing it on
your site or sharing it with friends. I am also interested in finding a forward-thinking publisher for a hardcopy version. Thanks very much. Illya Szilak