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Hope Abandoned by Nadezhda Mandelstam
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'Mrs Mandelstam's bitter reminiscences read like unvarnished reality itself... her descriptions of events and circumstances and situations carry total conviction. In this respect the work seems to me literally unique' - Isiah BerlinHope Against Hope recounted the last four years in the life of the great ...Show more
Hope Abandoned by Nadezhda Mandelstam; Max Hayward (Translator)
Category: Fiction
'Hope Against Hope' recounted the last four years in the life of the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam, and gave an account of Stalin's terror. 'Hope Abandoned' complements that earlier masterpiece, and in it Nadezhada Mandelstam describes their life together from 1919, and her own after Mandelstam's ...Show more
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Category: Biography | Series: Harvill Press Editions Ser.
"In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam wrote a short satirical poem denouncing Stalin and read it to a small circle of friends. The poem proved to be a 16-line death sentence. Mandelstam was arrested by the Cheka, the secret police, interrogated, exiled and eventually re-arrested. He died en route to a labou ...Show more
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam; Max Hayward (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir
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 ...Show more
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