ID: 435
Moscow Memoirs.
GERSTEIN, Emma

Category: Biography, History

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Harvill Press. 2004.

Description: Translated from the Russian by John Crowfoot. First UK edition. 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. Part biography, part autobiography, this book radically alters our view of two great twentieth century poets, Mandelstam and Akhmatova. By challenging and correcting Nadezhda Mandelstam's classic interpretation of the same time, Gerstein places the story of Osip Mandelstam's final years in fuller, and more controversial perspective. By turns moving, hilarious and shocking, Gerstein's memoirs compel us to re-examine a strange and terrible epoch. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Price £25.00