The Word That Causes Death's Defeat. Poems of memory. - Akhmatova, Anna.
poems of memory
KORTE INHOUD
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet’s magnum opus. Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet’s manuscripts and private notebooks. Ande...
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2004Uitgever: Yale University Press326 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300103778ISBN-13: 9780300103779Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Yale UP: New Haven, 2004. Boards with dustwrapper, 326 pp., notes, bibliography, index. Translated, with an introductory biography, critical essays and commentary by Nancy K. Anderson. 24x15,5x2,5 cm. Name on endpage. In very good condition. [Categorie: Poetry] [Auteur: Akhmatova, Anna.] [Pagina's: 326] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: The Word That Causes Death's Defeat. Poems of memory.]
