{"product_id":"journey-to-armenia-isbn-9781907903472","title":"Journey to Armenia","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, \u003ci\u003eJourney to Armenia\u003c\/i\u003e is a travel book in name only.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOsip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay, he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This edition also includes the companion piece, “Conversation About Dante,” which Seamus Heaney called “Osip Mandelstam’s astonishing fantasia on poetic creation.” An incomparable apologia for poetic freedom and a challenge to the Bolshevik establishment, the essay was dictated by the poet to his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam, in 1934 and 1935, during the last phase of his itinerant life. It has close ties to \u003ci\u003eJourney to Armenia\u003c\/i\u003e.“At once a travel narrative, an allegorical journey, a withering comment on State-Building, a humanist philosophy of life, a preparation for death and a prophecy of resurrection...\u003ci\u003eJourney \u003c\/i\u003ewas the last piece Mandelstam saw published, and it takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth-century literature.” —Bruce Chatwin\u003cb\u003eOsip Mandelstam\u003c\/b\u003e (1891–1938) was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. As an established poet, Mandelstam was unpopular with Soviet authorities and found it increasingly difficult to publish his poetry. \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVoronezh Notebooks \u003c\/i\u003eare published by NYRB. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Gifford\u003c\/b\u003e (1913–2003) was Winterstoke Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Bristol University. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSidney Monas\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Texas, Austin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClarence Brown \u003c\/b\u003e(1929–2015) was the author of several works on Osip Mandelstam, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302493868261,"sku":"NP9781907903472","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781907903472.jpg?v=1767730480","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/journey-to-armenia-isbn-9781907903472","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}