Osip Mandelʹshtam glazami sovremennikov
Vospominanii︠a︡. Dnevniki. Pisʹma. V 2 tomakh
(
Toma 1,2
)
Illustrations and maps
496 pp., illustrations
168 USD
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The main objective of this publication is to collect all currently known testimonies of contemporaries about the life of Osip Mandelstam, with the exception of the monumental books by Nadezhda Mandelstam and Emma Gershtein, which are abundantly quoted in the commentary. The two volumes contain more than 130 texts, and almost the same number of less voluminous testimonies are given in the commentary. These are memoirs, diaries, letters, and even denunciations of Mandelstam’s acquaintances, expressively characterizing the poet’s personality. Many of these texts and fragments of texts were previously reproduced in periodicals or in small-circulation scientific collections and have never been published under one cover. The publication includes a page-by-page historical and literary commentary and an annotated index of the persons mentioned. The appendix to the second volume contains poems by Mandelstam’s contemporaries, which capture his image. The unique illustrations include more than 650 photographs, drawings, printed publications, and documents.
