While HD
was growing up she read a lot of Russian fiction and poetry.
qtd. in
McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer, 10 June 2001.
The poems of Osip Mandelstam
were her talismans.
McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer, 10 June 2001.
The books that she read, she says, made me, as a person...
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. “Cixouss Left and Right Hands of Writing in Tambours sur la digue and OsnabrückFrench Forum, Vol.
26
, No. 3, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 111-22.
Textual Production
Elaine Feinstein
EF
has carried out a great deal of scholarly commentary of a kind best calculated to be useful to readers (though she did not finish her MA thesis on nineteenth-century sexual fantasists like Ouida
and...
Timeline
28 April 1938: Russian poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested:...
Writing climate item
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.
“Review of David Kings Ordinary Citizens: The Victims of StalinLondon Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2003, p. 18.