Osip Brik is a Soviet literary critic, writer, critic, major researcher and popularizer of the art of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Belonged to the poet’s circle of close friends and devoted most of his creative life to working on his legacy.
The beginning of the biography
Osip Maksimovich Brik was born in 1888 in an intelligent Jewish family belonging to the merchant class. He received a good legal education, but from a young age he was distinguished by a penchant for literature. Parents fully supported his son’s enthusiasm and his creative pursuits, but feared that writing would not be able to provide him with a livelihood.
Since 1916, Osip was seriously engaged in journalism, tried himself in literature. On his initiative, the OPOYAZ (Society for the Study of the Literary Language) was created. He participated in associations of leftist art, was friends with famous futurists, among whom were Burliuk, Kruchenykh, Mayakovsky.
Work and creativity
The main works of Brick are related to Vladimir Mayakovsky. Brik writes numerous articles, gives lectures, leads a literary circle, and prepares poetry collections. Unfortunately, many plans were not implemented, they include a dictionary of poetic language, personal memories, analysis of diaries. In collaboration with Mayakovsky, a series of political manifestos and the play "Radio October" was written. Osip Maksimovich published several short stories that are not reprinted today.
Since the late 1920s, Brick moved to the cinema, wrote scripts, acted as a director and even starred in a small role. During the war, he worked in the text department of Windows TASS.
