Osip Mandelstam, selected essays

Author(s)

• Mandelʹshtam, Osip
• Monas, Sidney

Bibliographic Information

Osip Mandelstam, selected essays

translated by Sidney Monas

（The Dan Danciger publication series）

University of Texas Press, c1977

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the work and place of the poet. Mandelstam's views on literature are profound and original, and they are expressed in striking and dramatic, if sometimes difficult, prose. These essays deal with such topics as the poetic process and the relationship of poetry to politics, culture, the traditions of the past, and the demands of the present. Sidney Monas's lively introduction to the work and life of Mandelstam combines the virtues of both the critical essay and detached scholarship. Keeping biographical detail to a minimum, Monas concentrates on the pattern that runs through the essays and lends them that coherence often noted in Mandelstam's poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Friends and Enemies of the Word Conversation about Dante, translated by Clarence Brown and Robert Hughes 1. About Poetry From the Author The Word and Culture Attack About an Interlocutor About the Nature of the Word Notes about Poetry The End of the Novel Badger's Burrow The Nineteenth Century Peter Chaadaev Notes about Chenier Francois Villon 2. Uncollected Essays and Fragments Pushkin and Scriabin (Fragments) The Morning of Acmeism Literary Moscow Literary Moscow: Birth of the Fabula Storm and Stress Humanism and Modern Life Fourth Prose 3. Journey to Armenia Sevan Ashot Ovanesian Zamoskvorech'e Sukhum The French Around the Naturalists Ashtarak Alagez Notes Index of Names

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Details

• NCID: BB08772278
• ISBN:
  • 9780292741454
• LCCN: 76022456
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: rus
• Place of Publication: Austin
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 245 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG2933
  • DC : 809
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Russian literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Mandelʹshtam, Osip, 1891-1938 -- Translations into English
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00122420