| The Last Days of Mandelstam Contributor(s): Khoury-Ghata, Vénus (Author), Fagan, Teresa Lavender (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857426532 ISBN-13: 9780857426536 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $19.35 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 843.914 |
| Series: French List |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 8.1" (0.55 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The year is 1938. The great Russian poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam is forty-seven years old and is dying in a transit camp near Vladivostok after having been arrested by Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into exile with his wife. Stalin, "the Kremlin mountaineer, murderer, and peasant-slayer," is undoubtedly responsible for his fatal decline. From the depths of his prison cell, lost in a world full of ghosts, Mandelstam sees scenes from his life pass before him: constant hunger, living hand to mouth, relying on the assistance of sympathetic friends, shunned by others, four decades of creation and struggle, alongside his beloved wife Nadezhda, and his contemporaries Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and many others. With her sensitive prose and innate sense of drama, French-Lebanese writer V nus Khoury-Ghata brings Mandelstam back to life and allows him to have the last word--proving that literature is one of the surest means to fight against barbarism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Khoury-Ghata, Venus: - Novelist and poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata is the author of several published books.Fagan, Teresa Lavender: - Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers. |