{"id":18293,"date":"2012-09-04T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=18293"},"modified":"2012-09-04T19:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T02:15:14","slug":"osip-mandelstam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/09\/04\/osip-mandelstam\/","title":{"rendered":"Osip Mandelstam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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    Osip Mandelstam<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Sweet Voice and Harsh Words of Osip <\/a><\/p>\n

    The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (1881-1938) was the brightest in a room full of brilliant flares, one of an extraordinary generation of poets that included Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Marina Tsvetayeva, who made up what is called the Silver Age of Russian poetry. No writer more than Mandelstam bore the brunt of the political experiment launched by his country in the second decade of the twentieth century. It could be said that he loved and lived for his native Russia, and died at the hands of the Soviet Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope<\/a><\/p>\n

    Hope Against Hope has been described by Martin Amis and Clive James as the essential memoir of the 20th century. It was written towards the end of her long life by Nadezhda Mandelstam, the wife of arguably Russia’s greatest modern poet, Osip Mandelstam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n