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Author | : Vénus Khoury-Ghata |
Publisher | : French List |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780857426536 |
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The year is 1938. The great Russian poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam is forty-seven years old and is dying in a transit camp near Vladivostok after having been arrested by Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into exile with his wife. Stalin, "the Kremlin mountaineer, murderer, and peasant-slayer," is undoubtedly responsible for his fatal decline. From the depths of his prison cell, lost in a world full of ghosts, Mandelstam sees scenes from his life pass before him: constant hunger, living hand to mouth, relying on the assistance of sympathetic friends, shunned by others, four decades of creation and struggle, alongside his beloved wife Nadezhda, and his contemporaries Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and many others. With her sensitive prose and innate sense of drama, French-Lebanese writer V nus Khoury-Ghata brings Mandelstam back to life and allows him to have the last word--proving that literature is one of the surest means to fight against barbarism.
Author | : Clare Cavanagh |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1994-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400821495 |
Download Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If modernism marked, as some critics claim, an "apocalypse of cultural community," then Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) must rank among its most representative figures. Born to Central European Jews in Warsaw on the cusp of the modern age, he could claim neither Russian nor European traditions as his birthright. Describing the poetic movement he helped to found, Acmeism, as a "yearning for world culture," he defined the impulse that charges his own poetry and prose. Clare Cavanagh has written a sustained study placing Mandelstam's "remembrance and invention" of a usable poetic past in the context of modernist writing in general, with particular attention to the work of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Cavanagh traces Mandelstam’s creation of tradition from his earliest lyrics to his last verses, written shortly before his arrest and subsequent death in a Stalinist camp. Her work shows how the poet, generalizing from his own dilemmas and disruptions, addressed his epoch’s paradoxical legacy of disinheritance--and how he responded to this unwelcome legacy with one of modernism’s most complex, ambitious, and challenging visions of tradition. Drawing on not only Russian and Western modernist writing and theory, but also modern European Jewish culture, Russian religious thought, postrevolutionary politics, and even silent film, Cavanagh traces Mandelstam’s recovery of a "world culture" vital, vast, and varied enough to satisfy the desires of the quintessential outcast modernist.
Author | : Christian Wiman |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780062099426 |
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A new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century Political nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist state. The public recitation of his 1933 poem known in English as "The Stalin Epigram" led to his arrest, exile, and eventual imprisonment in a Siberian transit camp, where he died, presumably in 1938. Mandelstam's work—much of it written under extreme duress—is an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of art in the face of oppression and terror. Stolen Air spans Mandelstam's entire poetic career, from his early highly formal poems in which he reacted against Russian Symbolism to the poems of anguish and defiant abundance written in exile, when Mandelstam became a truly great poet. Aside from the famous early poems, which have a sharp new vitality in Wiman's versions, Stolen Air includes large selections from The Moscow Notebooks and The Voronezh Notebooks. Going beyond previous translators who did not try to reproduce Mandelstam's music, Christian Wiman has captured in English—for the first time—something of Mandelstam's enticing, turbulent, and utterly heartbreaking sounds.
Author | : Nadezhda Mandelstam |
Publisher | : Harvill Secker |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2011-11 |
Genre | : Poets, Russian |
ISBN | : 9781846556548 |
Download Hope Abandoned Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hope Against Hoperecounted the last four years in the life of the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam, and gave a hair-raising account of Stalin's terror. Hope Abandonedcomplements that earlier masterpiece, and in it Nadezhda Mandelstam describes their life together from 1919, and her own after Mandelstam's death in a labour camp in 1938. She also sets out his system of values and beliefs, and provides striking portraits of many of their contemporaries including Boris Pasternak and their champion till his own downfall, Nikolai Bukharin, as well as an astonishingly candid picture of Anna Akhmatova.
Author | : Osip Mandelshtam |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1991-12-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141965398 |
Download Selected Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
James Greene's acclaimed translations of the poetry of Osip Mandelshtam, now in an extensively revised and augmented edition.
Author | : Osip Mandel?shtam |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780873952101 |
Download Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers the complete body of work of one of the twentieth century's greatest Russian poets for the first time in English.
Author | : Jenny Erpenbeck |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2016-02-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811221938 |
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Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperback Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone differently?—the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna after World War I, but a pact she makes with a young man leads to a second death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, yet our heroine ends up in a labor camp. But her fate does not end there…. A novel of incredible breadth and amazing concision, The End of Days offers a unique overview of the twentieth century.
Author | : Osip Mandelʹshtam |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sidney Monas |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0292741456 |
Download Osip Mandelstam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the work and place of the poet. Mandelstam's views on literature are profound and original, and they are expressed in striking and dramatic, if sometimes difficult, prose. These essays deal with such topics as the poetic process and the relationship of poetry to politics, culture, the traditions of the past, and the demands of the present. Sidney Monas's lively introduction to the work and life of Mandelstam combines the virtues of both the critical essay and detached scholarship. Keeping biographical detail to a minimum, Monas concentrates on the pattern that runs through the essays and lends them that coherence often noted in Mandelstam's poetry.
Author | : Peter B. Maggs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315485230 |
Download The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the history of the Yiddish writer Pinhas Kahanovich (Der Nister). It also provides a guide to the analysis of Stalin-era prison and labour camp files.