Vek moj, zver' moj. Sbornik

by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandel'shtam - genial'nyj russkij pojet, obladavshij unikal'nym chuvstvom jazyka, pervenstvo kotorogo sredi pojetov priznavala Anna Ahmatova; avtor izyskannoj prozy, perevodchik. Vot uzhe chetvert' veka, kak ja, meshaja vazhnoe s pustjakami, naplyvaju na russkuju pojeziju, no vskore stihi moi sol'jutsja s nej, koe-chto izmeniv v ee stroenii i sostave, - pisal O. Mandel'shtam o svoem pojeticheskim kredo. I okazalsja prav, navsegda ostaviv nepodrazhaemyj sled v istorii russkogo stihoslozhenija i literatury. Tot, kto hot' raz slyshal, chital proizvedenija Mandel'shtama, navsegda ostaetsja zavorozhennym magiej ego slova.

444 pages, Paperback

Published July 25, 2017

About the author

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.