Mandelstam

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Russian, Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Oleg Lekmanov, Tatiana Retivov ISBN: 9781618110145
Publisher: Academic Studies Press Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: Academic Studies Press Language: English
Author: Oleg Lekmanov, Tatiana Retivov
ISBN: 9781618110145
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Language: English

Now available for the first time in English, Oleg Lekmanovs critically acclaimed Mandelstam presents the maverick Russian poets life and work to a wider audience and includes the most reliable details of the poets life, which were recently found and released from the KGB archives. Through his engaging narrative, Lekmanov carries the reader through Mandelstams early life and education in pre-revolutionary Petersburg, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in Heidelberg and his return to revolutionary Russia. Bold and fearless, he was quoted as saying: Only in Russia do they respect poetry. They even kill you for it. Osip Mandelstam compared a writer to a parrot, saying that once his owner tires of him, he will cover his cage with black cloth, which becomes for literature a surrogate of night. In 1938, Mandelstam was arrested and six months later became a statistic: over 500,000 political prisoners were sent to the Gulags in 1938; between 1931 and 1940, over 300,000 prisoners died in the Gulags. One of them was the poet Osip Mandelstam. This is the tragic story of his life, pre-empted by the black cloth of Stalinism.

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Now available for the first time in English, Oleg Lekmanovs critically acclaimed Mandelstam presents the maverick Russian poets life and work to a wider audience and includes the most reliable details of the poets life, which were recently found and released from the KGB archives. Through his engaging narrative, Lekmanov carries the reader through Mandelstams early life and education in pre-revolutionary Petersburg, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in Heidelberg and his return to revolutionary Russia. Bold and fearless, he was quoted as saying: Only in Russia do they respect poetry. They even kill you for it. Osip Mandelstam compared a writer to a parrot, saying that once his owner tires of him, he will cover his cage with black cloth, which becomes for literature a surrogate of night. In 1938, Mandelstam was arrested and six months later became a statistic: over 500,000 political prisoners were sent to the Gulags in 1938; between 1931 and 1940, over 300,000 prisoners died in the Gulags. One of them was the poet Osip Mandelstam. This is the tragic story of his life, pre-empted by the black cloth of Stalinism.

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