Acclaimed in both Russia and the West as Russia's greatest poet of the 20th century, Osip Mandelstam was also a brilliant writer of prose. These autobiographical essays, reviews, and personal reflections reveal the themes of his finest poems and of his life in Stalinist Russia: the nature of history, both as it is lived and as it is later constructed; the continuity and destruction of cultural tradition, and the essence of poetry itself.
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- PublisherArdis
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679775412
- ISBN 13 9780679775416
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
- EditorHarris Jane Gary
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