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Loading... Intimations: Selected Poetryby Anna Ahkmatova
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a skilled love poet who, through no choice of her own, became a witness to mass violence, a widely recognized exemplar of endurance and moral strength, and finally a symbol of Russian national resilience. At the start of her career, during the final years of the Russian Empire, Akhmatova was a cultural celebrity who fascinated a generation not only with her poetry but also with the drama that she created around herself. After the revolution of 1917, she was attacked as a decadent bourgeois author and driven into silence and obscurity. Living in relative poverty, with her family and friends repeatedly arrested and harassed, and she herself publicly cursed by the representatives of the state, Akhmatova survived the darkest decades of Soviet history. Near the end of her life, when timorous cultural bureaucrats allowed her to reemerge as a public figure, she revealed to readers that even if the "collective" had rejected her as an unworthy member she had continued to write poetry reflecting the trials and calamities of Soviet men and women with greater truth and moral authority than any official poet could attain. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.7142Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian poetry USSR 1917–1991 Early 20th century 1917–1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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