Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. Our Life Has Lots of Edges.
Commentary to the song “At the Masquerade”.
It is pertinent to quote here Gaius Petronius Arbiter’s words: “Mundus universus exercet histrioniam.” (“All the world practices stage-playing.”)
The presented text is adapted from Bruce and Kathryn Hamilton, George Tokarev and Daria Verzhbovsky’s translations.