Journey to Armenia

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Osip Mandelstam

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Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. 'Armenia brought him back to his true self, a self depending on the inner ear which could never play a poet false. There was everything congenial to him in this country of red and ochre landscape, ancient churches, and resonant pottery.' (Henry Gifford). Conversation about Dante, Mandelstam's incomparable apologia for poetic freedom and challenge to the Bolshevik establishment, was dictated by the poet to his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam, in 1934-35, during the last phase of his itinerant life. It has close ties to the Journey.

Author Biography:

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. Asan established poet, Mandelstam was unpopular with Soviet authorities and foundit increasingly difficult to publish his poetry. The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstamand Voronezh Notebooks are published by NYRB. Henry Gifford (1913-2003) wasWinterstoke Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literatureat Bristol University. Sidney Monas is Professor Emeritus in the Department ofHistory at the University of Texas, Austin. Clarence Brown(1929-2015) was the author of severalworks on Osip Mandelstam, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature atPrinceton University, and editor of The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader.

Release date Australia

September 1st, 2011

Author

Osip Mandelstam

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Introduction by Henry Gifford
Translated by Clarence Brown
Translated by Robert Hughes
Translated by Sidney Monas

Pages

192

Dimensions

120x190x16

ISBN-13

9781907903472

Product ID

18402049

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