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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.7142
EAN: 9781400033782
ISBN: 1400033780
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Sales Rank: 461357
Studio: Vintage
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In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.
Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I, but she would pay a heavy price for the political and personal passions that informed her brilliant poetry. In Anna of All the Russias we see Akhmatova's work banned from 1925 until 1940 and again after World War II. We see her steadfast opposition to Stalin, even while her son was held in the Gulag. We see her abiding loyalty to such friends as Mandelstam, Shostakovich, and Pasternak as they faced Stalinist oppression. And we see how, through everything, Akhmatova continued to write, her poetry giving voice to the Russian people by whom she was, and still is, deeply loved.
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Rating:  - Great poet, fascinating beauty , heart rending Russian history lesson
What a moving , inspiring biography this is !
A Must read.
If you are not acquainted with Anna Akhmatova
And the astonishing artistic creativity in Russia
that miraculously abided
thru unimaginable tumolt and oppression.
This book will do the trick!
Part of this miracle:
how passionate and tender their support towards each other amidst.
What beauty ... Read More
Rating: - An illuminating and highly readable biography
Elaine Feinstein's engrossing biography of Anna Akhmatova - one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century - makes the woman, her work and her world vividly alive. In chronicling this extraordinarily dramatic life, Feinstein makes use of a broad range of new material, including letters, journals and memoirs, and interviews Akhmatova's surviving friends and relatives.
Feinstein follows Akhmatova from her privileged Russian youth to her free-spirited early adulthood and her first, ... Read More
Rating:  - Slow but enjoyable
I particularly liked Feinstein's biography of Akhmatova, although is a slow read, it introduces the reader to the human Akhmatova, with all her qualities and imperfections. Her generosity as a friend, her passion for poetry, her frail relationship with her son, the failed marriages and dire love affairs, the everyday struggle for existence all of these aspects reflected in her poetry. There are many interesting facts about her life like her meeting with Isaiah Berlin and the emotional and political ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 891.7142
EAN: 9781400033782
ISBN: 1400033780
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Sales Rank: 461357
Studio: Vintage