Hope Abandoned

Hope Abandoned
ISBN-10
1846556546
ISBN-13
9781846556548
Category
Poets, Russian
Pages
704
Language
English
Published
2011-11
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Author
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Description

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.

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