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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.
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 ChÉnier
FranÇois 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
