The Noise of Time
Selected Prose

Osip Mandel'shtam (Author), Osip Mandelstam (Author), Clarence Brown (Edited by), Clarence Brown (Other)

9780810119284

Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2002

224 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports.
19.6 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm, 0.275 kg

The most illuminating commentary on Mandelstam in English at the present moment...A work of impeccable scholarship. - Isaiah Berlin, New York Review of Books; ""In this translation, 'Journey to Armenia' takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature."" - Bruce Chatwin

Collected prose works by one of Russla's towering literary figures; 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 echoing Gogol and Dostoevsky; ""Fourth Prose,"" and the famous travel memoirs ""Theodosia"" and ""Journey to Armenia.