
Nadeschda Mandelstam was the wife of poet Osip Mandelstam. She knew Anna Achmatova very well.
April 16th, 2012 | by Janantoon | published in Boeken Janantoon | Comments Off on Nadeschda Mandelstam, Erinnerungen an Anna Achmatowa
Nadeschda Mandelstam was the wife of poet Osip Mandelstam. She knew Anna Achmatova very well.
October 26th, 2010 | by Janantoon | published in Boeken Janantoon | Comments Off on Elaine Feinstein, Anna of all the Russias
June 6th, 2010 | by Janantoon | published in Boeken Janantoon | Comments Off on Achmatova, Werken
July 29th, 2009 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, Russische literatuur | Comments Off on The Stalin Epigram, Robert Littell
This is a fine biographical novel about the last years of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. We meet people like Anna Achmatova, Boris Pasternak, Stalin’s chauffeur, etc. Mandelstam was fed up with his marginal situation as a translator and with the tyrannical behaviour of Stalin. One day in 1933 he wrote the Stalin Epigram, a […]