Hope abandoned : a memoir
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Hope abandoned : a memoir
Harvill Press, 2011, c1974
- : pbk
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Vtoraya kniga
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Note
"Hope Abandoned for this Harvill paperback edition"--T.p. verso
"Originally published under the title Vtoraya kniga by Editions YMCA Press, Paris, 1972"--T.p. verso
Chronology: p. 623-636
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Hope Against Hope recounted 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 Abandoned complements 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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