Mandelstam, Nadezhda Yakovlevna

Vtoraia kniga (Second book)

Paris: YMCA-Press, 1972. Lifetime edition. Original publisher's wrappers. Item #489

Book measures: 18.5 x 13.5 cm. 712 pages: portrait. Text in Russian.

A comprehensive view of the literary and social landscape spanning from the 1910s to the 1960s.

Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (1899-1980), a writer and wife of the renowned poet Osip Mandelstam, authored a book of memoirs that received high praise from numerous writers. The memoirs gained popularity, particularly overseas, as they provided an opportunity to examine the works of Osip Mandelstam and the Soviet era.

Price: $70.00