Mandelstam
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Nadezhda ( Yakovlevna ) (næˈdɛʃdə), born Nadezhda Khazina. 1899–1980, Soviet writer, wife of Osip Mandelstam: noted for her memoirs Hope against Hope (1971) and Hope Abandoned (1973) describing life in Stalin's Russia
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Osip ( Emilyevich ) (ˈɒsiːp). 1891–?1938, Soviet poet and writer, born in Warsaw; he was persecuted by Stalin and died in a labour camp. His works include Tristia (1922), Poems (1928), and the autobiographical Journey to Armenia (1933)
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Notting Hill’s other eclectic titles spotlight Georges Perec, Osip Mandelstam, fishing and dolls.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2020
“We believe there is now a process for moving forward together,” Mandelstam said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 15, 2020
But it’s not a portrait of Mandelstam, it’s a movie about Mandelstam’s ideas—or, rather, it’s about Josh’s big sociopolitical and aesthetically sophisticated, oblique, and abstract ideas, insofar as they overlap with Mandelstam’s.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2015
In May 1934, the poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested for a poem mocking Stalin.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012
Think Mandelstam on his hell-train, shuddering with fever, dying of a line in a poem.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2012
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