num_pages: 249
description: Collected prose works by one of Russia'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 his 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."
language: English
title: The Noise of Time: Selected Prose
titlecomplete: The Noise of Time: Selected Prose
genres: Short Stories, Poetry, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Classics, Travel, Russian Literature, Russia
ratings_count: 444
places: Armenia, Russia, Latvia, Finland
publisher: Northwestern University Press