Mandelstam (Revised)
Brown
(Author)
Description
Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in one of Stalin's labour camps, is one of the greatest poets of this century. Brown's 1978 volume is a very full and important book which tells of Mandelstam's earlier life and gives an introduction to the poetry. Professor Brown tells as much as will probably ever be known about Mandelstam's early life, his studies, his literary relationships; and recreates in piquant detail the intellectual world of prerevolutionary St Petersburg. Indeed, the criticism of Mandelstam's three collections of poetry, quoted both in Russian and in translation, manages the seemingly impossible: the reader with no Russian begins to grasp - as though at first hand - how this poetry makes its effects, and he senses its originality and importance and its place in European literature. Professor Brown here presents the first critical study of the life and works.
Product Details
Price
$52.79
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publish Date
July 28, 1978
Pages
340
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.76 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780521293471
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Rutherford Brown is retired and lives in Derbyshire, Spending many years acting at the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham, where short productions in between major plays were called "fents". A fent in lace manufacture is a remnant or piece. He has borrowed the term for the title of this book. Also a writer of short stories he has had "The Love of George" broadcast on BBC Radio 4.