The Word That Causes Death’s Defeat: Poems of Memory (Annals of Communism) 1st Edition by Anna Akhmatova (PDF)

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Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet’s magnum opus.Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero isalso provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet’s manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet’s life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova’s poems and how and why they were created.

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⭐Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), was from a privileged Russian family; before the Revolution she was an accomplished poet and travelled in Western Europe. Anna also studied literature and law, married fellow poet Nikolai Gumilyov and they had a son, Lev born in 1912. At first Anna seemed set to survive the Revolution, she divorced Gumilyov and remarried in 1918. In 1921 Gumilyov was executed by the Bolsheviks, and by 1924 her work fell out of favour.Anna was determined to stay in Russia, although her work was banned from 1925- 1940. When the Germans invaded Russia, Anna was permitted to read her work on radio in Leningrad , and was flown out the city when siege worsened. After World war 2, Anna was again denounced by the authorities , her son Lev spent periods in labour camps, poverty , the jailing of her friends, her third husband died in the camps. It took until 1959 for Anna to be officially recognised as a writer , 1964 before she was allowed to visit the West.About two thirds of the book is biography. There is also the inclusion of her three longer poems ‘Requiem’, ‘Poem without a Hero’ , ‘The Way of All The Earth; some critical essays and commentary. Essential Reading.

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