Regarding Artistic Freedom 210
My Self-Portrait in the Light of Historical Materialism 211
From Against Professional Secrets
From Feuerbach to Marx 213
Explanation of History 213
“An animal is led” 214
“There exist questions” 214
The Head and Feet of Dialectics 214
The Death of Death 214
The Motion Inherent in Matter 215
Individual and Society 215
Negations of Negations 216
Reputation Theory 221
Noise of a Great Criminal’s Footsteps 223
Conflict between the Eyes and the Gaze 224
Languidly His Liqueur 225
Vocation of Death 226
From Toward the Reign of the Sciris
1. The Other Imperialism 229
2. The Seer 231
3. The Peace of Túpac Yupanqui 236
4. An Accident on the Job 239
5. Byzantium, West Longitude 241
From Moscow vs. Moscow
The Final Judgment 245
Death 247
From The River Flows between Two Shores
Act 1, Scene 1 264
Act 1, Scene 2 264
Act 1, Scene 3 275
Letters
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 14, 1924 294
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 26, 1924 295
To Alcides Spelucín, July 1924 296
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1924 297
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, November 5, 1924 298
To Juan Larrea, March 12, 1926 299
To Ricardo Vegas García, May 15, 1926 300
To Juan Larrea, July 26, 1926 300
To Alcides Spelucín, September 14, 1926 302
To José Carlos Mariátegui, December 10, 1926 302
To Emilio Armaza, December 10, 1926 303
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, July 24, 1927 303
To Luis Alberto Sánchez, August 18, 1927 305
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, September 12, 1927 305
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1927 308
To Rafael Méndez Dorich, February 17, 1928 309
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, March 17, 1928 309
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, April 26, 1928 310
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1928 310
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, December 27, 1928 311
Notebooks
Entries from 1926–1928 313
From Human Poems
Good Sense 317
I Am Going to Speak of Hope 318
“No one lives in the house” 319
Height and Hair 319
Hat, Overcoat, Gloves 320
Black Stone on a White Stone 320
“And don’t say another word to me” 321
“It was Sunday in the clear ears of my jackass” 322
“Today I like life much less” 322
Epistle to the Passersby 323
The Hungry Man’s Rack 324
“Considering coldly” 325
“Idle on a stone” 326
Paris, October 1936 328
“And if after so many words” 328
Telluric and Magnetic 329
“The miners came out of the mine” 331
From Reflections at the Foot of the Kremlin
8. Literature: A Meeting of Bolshevik Writers 333
9. The Day of a Stonemason: Love, Sports, Alcohol, and Democracy 336
14. Film: Russia Inaugurates a New Era on the Silver Screen 355
From Russia Facing the Second Five-Year Plan
What Is the Workers’ Club? 360
Workers Discuss Literature 360
