Four of Us: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00S06IGLQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent translation of these Russian poets' work Excellent translation of these Russian poets' work. The music of the language and poetic images are magnificently preserved. Bravo Mr Kneller!. JMJ Amazon Customer This book is a plesant surprise! Very pleasant! Four poets I know so little about ( except Akhmatova).. Constance Plumley said The Great Ones. A great representative selection of the Russian Avant Garde---Cyrillic alongside the English. If you are interested in learning more about some of the Slavic world's greatest poets, "The Four of Us" is a solid introduction. The volume is slim and quite portable---fit's nicely in handbag or book bag.
She suffered repression under Stalinism and after World War II; her literary achievement was finally internationally recognized in the final years of her life.Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (February, 1890 May, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Soviet Russian poet and writer. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets. In the West he is
Most of Mandelstam's works were unknown outside his own country and went unpublished during the Stalin era (1929-53). . Along with Anna Akhmatova, Mandelstam was one of the foremost members of Acmeist school of poetry. About the Author Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets. She suffered repression under Stalinism and after World War II; her literary achievement was finally internationally recognized in the final years of her life.Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (February, 1890 May, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Soviet Russian poet and writer. Pasternak was brought up in a highly cosmopolitan atmosphere, and visitors to his home included pianis
Tsvetaeva is unquestionably the choleric author. Pasternak is sanguine. And Akhmatova is phlegmatic. That’s what I think. Mandelstam is melancholic. Together they cover the whole poetic universe."-Joseph BrodskyIncluded in this dual-language book is a selection of 10 poems from each poet translated into English by Andrey Kneller.. "….The fact of the matter is that everything that happens in culture ultimately comes down to this, to the four famous temperaments: melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic, and choleric. It seems to me that our Big Four can also be divided by according to these temperaments, inasmuch as all of them are actually very distinctly represented in the group