Product Description

Collected prose works by one of Russla's towering literary figures; Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's biographer, Clarence Brown, presents a collection of the poet's prose works that illuminates Mandelstam's far-ranging talent and places him within the canon of European modernism. This volume includes Mandelstam's "The Noise of Time," a series of autobiographical sketches; "The Egyptian Stamp," a novella echoing Gogol and Dostoevsky; "Fourth Prose," and the famous travel memoirs "Theodosia" and "Journey to Armenia."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #239098 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-31
• Original language: Russian
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 249 pages

Review
"The most illuminating commentary on Mandelstam in English at the present moment...A work of impeccable scholarship." - Isaiah Berlin, New York Review of Books; "In this translation, 'Journey to Armenia' takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature." - Bruce Chatwin