| The Noise of Time: Selected Prose Contributor(s): Mandelstam, Osip (Author), Brown, Clarence (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810119285 ISBN-13: 9780810119284 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: Though known primarily as a poet, Osip Mandelstam worked in many genres. This collection of his works, presented with essays by Mandelstam's biographer, illuminates the poet's accomplishments as a prose stylist and includes "The Noise of Time," a series of autobiographical sketches; "The Egyptian Stamp," a short story echoing Gogol and Dostoevsky; and his famous travel memoirs, "Theodosia" and "Journey to Armenia." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.783 |
| LCCN: 2001054425 |
| Series: European Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.28" W x 7.72" (0.56 lbs) 249 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's biographer, Clarence Brown, presents a collection of the poet's prose works that illuminates Mandelstam's far-ranging talent and places him within the canon of European modernism. This volume includes Mandelstam's The Noise of Time, a series of autobiographical sketches; The Egyptian Stamp, a novella; Fourth Prose; and the famous travel memoirs Theodosia and Journey to Armenia. |