The Akhmatova Journals Vol 1; 1938-1941
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0810119404
ISBN-13
9780810119406
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Imprint
Northwestern University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 3rd, 2002
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.60 x 2.00 cms
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Anna Akhmatova was a great Russian poet of the 20th century. Lydia Chukovskaya, an admirer who became the poet's close friend, kept intimate diaries that reveal the life of a passionate artist forced to endure sorrow and oppression. This volume contains the journals kept between 1938 and 1941.
Even in her own day Anna Akhmatova was ranked as one of the great Russian poets of the century. Yet she suffered scathing attacks from the Soviet establishment, was famously denounced as ""half-nun, half-whore"", and was finally expelled from the Writers'' Union. Lydia Chukovskaya, an admirer who became the poet''s close friend, kept intimate diaries that reveal the day-to-day life of a passionate artist forced to endure sorrow and oppression, yet still able to create poetry and friendship. This volume contains the journals kept between the years 1938 and 1941.
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