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Author | : Anna Akhmatova |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2006-05-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0307264246 |
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A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was “beautiful clarity”—in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers’ Union—condemned as “half nun, half harlot.” Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russia’s most beloved poets. Here are poems from all her major works—including the magnificent “Requiem” commemorating the victims of Stalin’s terror—and some that have been newly translated for this edition.
Author | : Margarete Orga |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Victor Terras |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300048681 |
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Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Author | : Nikolay Punin |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0292787855 |
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Nikolay Punin (1888-1953) was the most articulate Russian/Soviet art critic of the 1920s. He strongly advocated Constructivism, an avant-garde impulse that favored mechanomorphic abstraction and proclaimed a movement to bring art into the center of popular life. In the United States, he is perhaps best remembered for his love affair with Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the first English translation of ten diary notebooks that Punin wrote between 1915 and 1936, as well as selections from his earlier (1904-1910) and later (1941-1946) diaries and some thirty notes and letters relating to his affair with Anna Akhmatova. These materials offer a rare glimpse into the life of art and artists in Russia. They also present vivid scenes from the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the 1917 Revolutions, World War II, and Stalinist oppression through the reflections of a talented man, who, unlike many of his generation, lived to tell the tale.
Author | : György Dalos |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000-09-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374527202 |
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"There were tragic consequences, however. The Soviet authorities thought Berlin was a British spy, and Akhmatova, who was never a dissident, became an ideological enemy. Until her death in 1966 the KGB persecuted her and her family. Akhmatova was convinced that her meeting with Berlin had inadvertently started the Cold War, yet she remembered it gratefully and it inspired some of her finest love poems."--Jacket.
Author | : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810114852 |
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"Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. This is the first paperback collection of her prose available in English." "The subjects of her memoirs are extraordinary: she describes Modigliani as she knew him in Paris, Blok near the end of his days, and Mandelstam as a close friend. The autobiographical prose section reveals the elusive poet's personality more clearly than any biography could, including her thoughts about how difficult it was to be a poet at a time when women writers were rarely taken seriously." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Isaiah Berlin |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0815796331 |
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Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped shape his later work, especially his defense of political freedom and his studies of pre-Soviet Russian thinkers. Never before collected, Berlin's writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalin's manipulative 'artificial dialectic'; portraits of Osip Mandel´shtam and Boris Pasternak; his survey of Soviet Russian culture written after a visit in 1956; a postscript stimulated by the events of 1989; and more. This collection includes essays that have never been published before, as well as works that are not widely known because they were published under pseudonyms to protect relatives living in Russia. The contents of this book were discussed at a seminar in Oxford in 2003, held under the auspices of the Brookings Institution. Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy, had prepared the essays for collective publication and here recounts their history. In his foreword, Brookings president Strobe Talbott, an expert on the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin's other work. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful place among Berlin's works and will prove invaluable for policymakers, students, and those interested in Russian politics, past, present and future.
Author | : Katya Galitzine |
Publisher | : Vendome Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1999-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Explores not only Romanov palaces but also hundreds of other less-well-known sites from all periods in the city's history.
Author | : Douglas Smith |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300150555 |
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Set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance is the stuff of a great historical novel. It presents the account of the love between Count Nicholas Sheremetev, Russia's richest aristocrat, and Praskovia Kovalyova, his serf and the greatest opera diva of her time.
Author | : Clare Cavanagh |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300152965 |
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This work explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. It also provides a comparative study of modern poetry from the perspective of the Eastern and Western sides of the Iron Curtain.