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Poesía

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El libro «Este es el único país en el que respetan la poesía: matan por ella», ironizaba Mandelshtám cuando se enteraba de que otro poeta había muerto en alguna cárcel de la URSS. Él mismo acabó sus días en un campo de trabajo cercano a Vladivostok. Antes de ello había dejado una de las más singulares obras poéticas de la literatura rusa del siglo XX, una poesía, en palabras de Joseph Brodsky, «de alta velocidad y nervios expuestos». Fue, junto con Ana Ajmátova, uno de los máximos exponentes del llamado «Acmeísmo», que surge como hijo primero y como reacción después del simbolismo ruso. Aunque se opuso a la revolución bolchevique decidió permanecer en la Unión Soviética, donde sufrió repetidas detenciones y reclusiones en campos de trabajo. Este volumen recoge los tres libros de poemas que publicó en vida.


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280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

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Osip Mandelstam

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Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (also spelled Osip Mandelshtam, Ossip Mandelstamm) (Russian: Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам) was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife Nadezhda. Given a reprieve of sorts, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to a camp in Siberia. He died that year at a transit camp.

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November 24, 2022
LXI
Más agudos los ojos que de guadaña el filo,
en cada pupila un cuclillo y una gota de rocío,
y de cuerpo entero aprendieron apenas
a distinguir la solitaria multitud de las estrellas.
9 febrero 1937

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October 29, 2022
Traducciones aberrantes, pretenciosas y rimbombantes que solo cobran sentido cuando ves que el traductor era jurista de profesión y un abierto fascista, defensor de Franco, Mussolini y Pinochet. Una vergüenza que Vaso Roto le ponga a traducir a Mandelstam.
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April 4, 2019
Review to come soon. While that:

I was washing in the yard at night.
The firmament was brilliant with rude stars.
On an axe, the starlight looked like salt –
The barrel cooling, filled up to the brim.

The gates are tightly shut and locked
Аnd the earth in conscience most severe.
No foundation is likely to be found
As pure in truth as fresh canvas.

Like a grain of salt, a star melts in the barrel,
And the water becomes even blacker –
Evil fate more salty, death more pure,
And the earth more frightening and truer.
(1921)
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May 26, 2013
il secolo
"mia età, mia belva, chi potrà
guardarti dentro agli occhi
e saldare col suo sangue
le vertebre di due secoli?
dalla gola delle cose terrestri
fiotta sangue fabbriciere.
sulla soglia dei nuovi giorni
a tremare è soltanto il parassita.
finché c'è vita deve la creatura
portare la propria schiena,
vanno, scherzano i flutti
con l'invisibile spina dorsale.
tenera, infantile cartilagine
è l'era neonata della terra.
di nuovo, agnello, hanno immolato
l'osso frontale della vita.
per liberare il secolo in catene,
per dare inizio al mondo nuovo,
bisogna a flauto saldare
i segmenti nodosi dei giorni.
è il secolo che l'onda
di umana angoscia sommuove,
all'aureo ritmo del secolo
nell'erba la vipera respira.
e si gonfieranno ancora le gemme
e zampillerà il verde dei germogli.
ma è spezzata la tua spina dorsale
mio stupendo, mio povero secolo.
e con un sorriso demente,
come una belva un tempo flessuosa
ti volti indietro, debole e crudele,
a contemplare le tue orme" [1922]
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