McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer.
Osip Mandelstam
Standard Name: Mandelstam, Osip
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Helen Dunmore | While HD
was growing up she read a lot of Russian fiction and poetry. McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Akhmatova | In March of 1938 her son, Lev Gumilyov
, was re-arrested and sentenced to death. He was ultimately released, but the seventeen months of his imprisonment were one of the darkest times of Anna's life... |
politics | Anna Akhmatova | The late 1920s and middle 30s were marked by massive repressions and imprisonments undertaken by the Communist
regime now headed by Joseph Stalin
. Battered by the arrests of Osip Mandelstam
, a fellow writer... |
Textual Production | Hélène Cixous | CH published Manne: aux Mandelstams aux Mandelas, a text about three disparate people linked by the opening of their surnames: South African politicians Winnie
and Nelson Mandela
, and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam
. Running-Johnson, Cynthia. “Cixous’s Left and Right Hands of Writing in Tambours sur la digue and Osnabrück”. French Forum, No. 3, pp. 111 -22. |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein |
Timeline
28 April 1938
Russian poet Osip Mandelstam
was arrested: charged with counter-revolutionary activities and sentenced to five years' hard labour, he died in a transit camp that same December.