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Hope Against Hope: A Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nadezhda Mandelstam, Clarence Brown (Introduction by), Max Hayward (Translator)Series:Modern Library (Paperback)Publish date:1999-03-30Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780375753169ISBN-10:375753168UPC:9780375753169Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historical, Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCWMVR9AMZ
The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader. Of the eighty-one years of her life, Nadezhda Mandelstam spent nineteen as the wife of Russia's greatest poet in this century, Osip Mandelstam, and forty-two as his widow. The rest was childhood and youth." So writes Joseph Brodsky in his appreciation of Nadezhda Mandelstam that is reprinted here as an Introduction. Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her life with Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. Hope Against Hope is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. But it is also a profound inspiration--a love story that relates the daily struggle to keep both love and art alive in the most desperate circumstances.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780375753169ISBN-10:375753168UPC:9780375753169Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historical, Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCWMVR9AMZ
NADEZHDA MANDELSTAM (1899-1980) was a Russian writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in a Siberian transit camp of the Soviet gulag. She wrote two memoirs about their life together and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1973), both first published in the West in English.

About the introducer:
MARIA STEPANOVA is a Russian poet, novelist, and journalist. She is the current editor of Colta.ru, an online publication specializing in arts and culture. In 2005, she won the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for poetry, and in 2018 was awarded the Big Book national literary award for her novel In Memory of Memory.
Publisher: Modern Library

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