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Hope Abandoned
Nadezhda Mandelstam
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Description for Hope Abandoned
paperback. 'Hope Against Hope' recounted the last four years in the life of the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam, and gave an account of Stalin's terror. 'Hope Abandoned' complements that earlier masterpiece, and in it Nadezhada Mandelstam describes their life together from 1919, and her own after Mandelstam's death in a labour camp in 1938. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 50. Weight in Grams: 760.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Random House
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846556548
SKU
V9781846556548
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About Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezdha Yakovlevna Mandelstam was born in Saratov in 1899, but spent her early life in Kiev, studying art and travelling widely with her family. She learnt English, French and German fluently enough to be able to take on extensive translation work, which at a later period allowed her and her husband to survive. She met the poet Osip Mandelstam in ... Read more
Reviews for Hope Abandoned
Two of the most fortifying books of our times, Nadezhda Mandelstam’s Hope against Hope and Hope Abandoned ... were finally written in the late Sixties. In these books, we have a devastating indictment of most of what happened in post-revolutionary Russia
Seamus Heaney
London Review of Books
A bursting compendium of glances at people, framed in essays ... Read more
Seamus Heaney
London Review of Books
A bursting compendium of glances at people, framed in essays ... Read more