A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the
Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip
Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding
tragedy of his life, preserved its unique creative gaiety. Nadezhda
and Osip Mandelstam married in 1922. Nadezhda's memoir covers their
last four years together. She begins in Moscow in May 1934 with the
knock on the door at one o'clock in the morning, and her husband's
arrest by the secret police for composing a satire of Stalin. She
tells of his imprisonment, interrogation and exile to the Urals,
where she accompanied him, and where he wrote his last great poems;
his release and return to Moscow, only to be entrapped, rearrested
and sentenced to hard labour in Siberia; of her own efforts to
secure his release and to save his manuscripts (and to memorize all
his poems in case she could not); of her discovery of the truth
about his death in a transit camp near Vladivostock. For all its
grim subject matter, it is a story of courage in adversity, and
even humour finds a place. Nadezhda means 'hope' in Russian, and
Hope against Hope is one of the greatest testaments to the value of
literature and imaginative freedom ever written. It is also a love
story that relates the daily struggle to keep both love and art
alive in the most desperate circumstances. After years of
circulating secretly in the Soviet Union it was published in the
West in 1970, and has since achieved the status of a classic.
General
| Imprint: |
Everyman's Library
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Nadezhda Mandelstam
|
| Translators: |
Max Hayward
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 133 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
500 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84159-412-5 |
| Subtitles: |
Russian
|
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-84159-412-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781841594125 |
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