The Noise of Time: Selected Prose (European Classics) - Softcover

Mandelstam, Osip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810119285 ISBN 13: 9780810119284

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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; "Fourth Prose;" and the famous travel memoirs "Theodosia" and "Journey to Armenia."

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Though known primarily as a poet, Osip Mandelstam worked in many genres. This collection of his works, presented with essays by Mandelstam's biographer, illuminates the poet's accomplishments as a prose stylist and includes "The Noise of Time," a series of autobiographical sketches; "The Egyptian Stamp," a short story echoing Gogol and Dostoevsky; and his famous travel memoirs, "Theodosia" and "Journey to Armenia."

About the Author:

Osip Mandelstam was born in Warsaw in 1891. Raised in St. Petersburg, he published his first collection, Stone, in 1913 and joined with Anna Akhmatova in the Acmeist movement. Arrested in 1934 for an epigram he'd written about Joseph Stalin, Mandelstam died in a gulag near Vladivostok in 1938. His works include Osip Mandelstam: Fifty Poems and Moscow Notebooks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810119285
• ISBN 13: 9780810119284
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249