My Half-Century: Selected Prose
Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. This is the first paperback collection of her prose available in English. The subjects of her memoirs are extraordinary: she describes Modigliani as she knew him in Paris, Blok near the end of his days, and Mandelstam as a close friend. The autobiographical prose section reveals the elusive poet's personality more clearly than any biography could, including her thoughts about how difficult it was to be a poet at a time when women writers were rarely taken seriously.
- Author
- Anna Akhmatova, Ronald Meyer
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 439
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780810114852
- Genres
- russia, poetry
- Release date
- 1997
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