My Half-Century: Selected Prose [Paperback]

Anna Akhmatova (Author), Ronald Meyer (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 20, 1997

all the major prose works

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Voice of her generation and prophet of Russia's misery, poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was touched by personal tragedies. Her first husband, poet Nikolai Gumilyov, was executed on the false charge of treason in 1921; their son Lev spent years in prison and exile. Herself vilified in the press, censored, isolated, plagued by tuberculosis, Akhmatova eked out a living as a translator until her belated recognition came in the 1960s. This kaleidoscopic selection of her prose includes autobiographical fragments, letters, essays on Pushkin, a rousing 1941 wartime broadcast to the women of Leningrad, diatribes against the Stalinist cultural establishment and encounters with Modigliani, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Blok. Akhmatova's quicksilver prose registers a resilient personality. Meyer, a Columbia University scholar, provides a useful biographical sketch and notes. Photos.
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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

Product Details

• Paperback: 439 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press (July 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810114852
• ISBN-13: 978-0810114852
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #789,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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