My Half-Century: Selected Prose
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My Half-Century presents a large collection of the major prose works of the great twentieth century Russian poet, including -- Pages from a Diary, her brilliant shorter pieces About Pushkin, a number of reviews and public addresses including A Word About Dante, a long selection of letters (to Aleksander Blok, Nikolai Gumilyov, Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, and many others up to Joseph Brodsky), with an afterword (Akmatova's Prose) by Emma Gershtein. The title section, My Half Century, recounts fellow poets and artists Blok, Modigliani, Mandelstam, Gumilyov, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, et al. Also here, Akmatova's illuminating Prose About the Poem, on the genesis of her masterpiece A Poem Without a Hero, ' along with extensive notes and a detailed biographical sketch.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0810114852
ISBN13:9780810114852
Release Date:July 1997
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:439 Pages
Weight:1.32 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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