Hope Abandoned, Nadezhda Mandelstam, 1974, Memoir, First Edition Thus, HCDJ

by Nadezhda Mandelstam

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Hope Abandoned Nadezhda Mandelstam 1974 Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (30 October 1899 – 29 December 1980) was a Soviet writer, translator, educator, linguist, and memoirist. ... Nadezhda wrote two memoirs about her life with Osip Mandelstam and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward. In her memoirs, Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, first published in the West, she made an epic analysis of her husband's life and times. She elevated her husband as the figure of an artistic martyr under Stalin's repressive regime. She criticized the moral and cultural degradation of the Soviet Union of the 1920s and later. The titles of her memoirs use word play as nadezhda means "hope" in Russian. The third book remained unfinished. It contains Anna Akhmatova's memoirs, which for 40 years were considered lost. They were published in German translation by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2011. Of these books the critic Clive James wrote, "Hope Against Hope puts her at the centre of the liberal resistance under the Soviet Union. A masterpiece of prose as well as a model of biographical narrative and social analysis it is mainly the story of the terrible last years of persecution and torment before the poet [her husband Osip] was murdered. The sequel, Hope Abandoned, is about the author's personal fate, and is in some ways even more terrible, because, as the title implies, it is more about

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Year: 1974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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