My half century : selected prose
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My half century : selected prose
Northwestern University Press, 1997
Northwestern University Press ed
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Originally published: Ann Arbor : Ardis, 1992
Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]) and index
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Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. This is the first paperback collection of her prose available in English. The subjects of her memoirs are extraordinary: she describes Modigliani as she knew him in Paris, Blok near the end of his days, and Mandelstam as a close friend. The autobiographical prose section reveals the elusive poet's personality more clearly than any biography could, including her thoughts about how difficult it was to be a poet at a time when women writers were rarely taken seriously.
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