Osip Mandelstam : : Selected Essays.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• TeilnehmendeR: Monas, Sidney.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Friends & Enemies of the Word -- Conversation about Dante -- About Poetry -- FROM THE AUTHOR -- The Word & 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 -- Uncollected Essays and Fragments -- Pushkin & Scriabin (Fragments) -- The Morning of Acmeism -- Literary Moscow -- Literary Moscow: Birth of the Fabula -- Storm & Stress -- Humanism & Modern Life -- Fourth Prose -- Journey to Armenia -- SEVAN -- ASHOT OVANESIAN -- ZAMOSKVORECH'E -- SUKHUM -- THE FRENCH -- AROUND THE NATURALISTS -- ASHTARAK -- ALAGEZ -- Notes -- Index of Names