Hope Against Hope/Hope Abandoned (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadezhda Mandelstam
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Memoirs>
- Time of Work: 1919-1938
- Setting: The Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Osip Mandelstam, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography
- Subjects: Culture, History, Suffering, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Human rights, Courage, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Hope, Oppression, Creative process, Cruelty, Biography, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Concentration camps, Arts or crafts, Persecution
- Locales: Soviet Union
Form and Content
Nadezhda Mandelstam, the wife of one of the most accomplished Russian poets of the twentieth century, Osip Mandelstam, spent most of her married life sharing the good and the bad experiences of her husband’s life. When he finally succumbed to the reign of terror in Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union and perished in a concentration camp on December 27, 1938, she took it upon herself to preserve for posterity her husband’s poetic works; without her gallant efforts, most of Osip Mandelstam’s work would have been lost forever, since he was prevented from...
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