The word that causes death's defeat
Subtitle: poems of memory
By: Anna Akhmatova ; translated, with an introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Nancy K., 1956-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966 -- Translations into English.; Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element, by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of prerevolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson's translations of three of Akhmatova's most important poems." "Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet's manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet's life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova's poems and how and why they were created."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.315-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Youth and early fame, 1889-1916; title: Revolution and civil war, 1917-1922; title: Outcast in the new order, 1922-1935; title: Terror and the muse, 1936-1941; title: War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953; title: Late fame and final years, 1953-1966; title: Requiem; title: The way of all the earth; title: Poem without a hero; title: Bearing the burden of witness : Requiem; title: Forward into the past : The way of all the earth; title: Rediscovering a lost generation : Poem without a hero; title: Commentary on Poem without a hero.