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Chargement... Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatovapar Elaine Feinstein
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An amazingly well researched and lovingly written biography of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Akhmatova became a nationally known poet in imperial Russia before living thru world war one, the Bolshevik revolution, Stalin's terror and ban on her publication, the siege of Leningrad and world war two, and finally a thaw in Soviet government policy that lead to her world wide recognition. Along the way she interacted with seemingly all the famous writers of time, whether in or out of favor. A simply marvelous story that likely could not be swallowed if it were a piece of fiction. ( ) Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a legendary Russian poet and an icon for the people in Russia. To think of becoming and staying a poet was in Akhmatova's own words absurd, but she endured it. Feinstein draws on a wealth of material, including memoirs, letters, journals and interviews with Akhmatova's surviving friends. She started writing and reading her poems in Petrograd before 1913. Against the dramatic history of the Russia of the Tsar, the revolution of Lenin and than the hardest rules of Stalin, she paid a heavy price for her art and her personal passions and love affairs. Her work was banned from 1925 until 1940 and again following World War II. At the end of her life she got recognation in the west. Akhmatova wrote a lot of poetry. This verse from 'Northern elegies (september 1945) I found really moving: "They've burnt my little toy town And now there is no wormhole to the past It is as if I were a river Forced by this brutal age to change my path.... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millions Anna Akhmatova is recognised as one of the greatest poets of Russian literature, an iconic figure who gave voice to the suffering of the Russian people during the brutal years of Stalin's Terror. Akhmatova began writing at a time when 'to think of a woman as a poet was absurd' but her genius soared above any such category. Hailed as a great beauty, she married three times yet her personal life was shot through with tragedy and her only son and third husband were held captive in the Gulags. Through illness, poverty and repression she maintained her resistance to the regime, with a dignity and composure that led her to be dubbed 'Anna of all the Russias'. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)891.7142Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian poetry USSR 1917–1991 Early 20th century 1917–1945Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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