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Mandelstam (Hardcover, New)
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Mandelstam (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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Now available for the first time in English, Oleg Lekmanov's
critically acclaimed Mandelstam presents the maverick Russian
poet's life and work to a wider audience and includes the most
reliable details of the poet's life, which were recently found and
released from the KGB archives. Through his engaging narrative,
Lekmanov carries the reader through Mandelstam's 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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