Conversation About Dante (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Osip Mandelstam
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Literary and cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: History, Psychology or psychologists, Literature, Art or artists, Manners or customs, Poetry or poets, Social life, Writing
Form and Content
Anticipating his arrest by Joseph Stalin’s men in the early 1930’s, Osip Mandelstam purchased a small copy of Dante’s fourteenth century classic, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy, 1802), which subsequently he always carried in his pocket. His fears were well-founded. He was arrested, held, released, and rearrested. Before the close of 1938, the Warsaw-born, Jewish poet-essayist had died mysteriously in a Soviet prison camp near Vladivostok. In the meantime, in 1933, in addition to his already large body of poems and essays, he completed...
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