The Whisper of History and the Noise of Time in the Writings of Osip Mandel'shtam

1978 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Freidin
Keyword(s):  
Osip Mandel'shtam

scholarly journals Ученики и учителя Тенишевского училища (по школьным журналам и архивным документам) [Tenishev School: Its Instructors, Students, School Magazines and Archives]

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 117-177
Author(s):  
Marina Salman
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Osip Mandel'shtam ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Director ◽  
History Of

This article results from extensive archival research, and compares information found in Tenishev school magazines to the archival data concerning the school life of the corresponding period. The article’s major goal is to reconstruct life stories of Tenishev school students and the school’s instructors as meticulously as possible, and also to demonstrate the style of communication between the teachers and adolescents. It also reveals some previously unknown information concerning the life story of Tenishev School director Alexander Ostrogorskii (1868—1908). KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian History, Osip Mandel’shtam (1891—1938), Viktor Zhirmunskii (1891—1971), Alexander Ostrogorskii (1868—1908), Tenishev School, School Magazines, Soviet Terror, History of School Education in Russia.

Osip Mandel'shtam

1972 ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
C. MOODY
Keyword(s):  
Osip Mandel'shtam

Mandel'shtam's Mandel'shteln (Initial Observations on the Cracking of a Slit-Eyed Nut, OR a Couple of Chinks in the Shchell)

Slavic Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 450-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Pollak
Keyword(s):  
Robert Frost ◽  
Osip Mandel'shtam ◽  
Current Concern ◽  
New Energy ◽  
The Way

But the impervious geodeWas entered, and its inner crustOf crystals with a ray cathodeAt every point and facet glowedIn answer to the mental thrust.Robert Frost, “All Revelation”A crucial year for Osip Mandel'shtam was 1930: it was in October of that year, in Tiflis, on the way back from Armenia, that poetry returned to him, after five years during which he wrote almost no verse. The Armenia poems (numbers 203-218) are among the first of the “new verse,” and, with their theme of penance for unproductivity and attempt to transform the factors of disturbance—the sense of limitation, confinement, deprivation—into sources of new energy, they testify to Mandel'shtam's current concern with the operations of his work. Moreover, at this juncture Mandel'shtam gives programmatic attention to the principles of his writing.

Dialogue as “Lyrical Hermaphroditism”: Mandel shtam's Challenge to Bakhtin

Slavic Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Boym
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Osip Mandel'shtam ◽  
Different Dimensions

Osip Mandel'shtam, “Fransua Villon”Mikhail Bakhtin, “Slovo v romane”The two epigraphs disclose a crucial “genre gap” between Osip Mandel'shtam and Mikhail Bakhtin. If for Mandel'shtam dialogue is essential to lyric, for Bakhtin the dialogical discourse identifies the novel as a genre in opposition to monologic, self-centered and self-sufficient poetic language. In his essays “Fransua Villon” and “O sobesednike,” Mandel'shtam discusses different dimensions of dialogue—the dialogue between various historical epochs—modernity and Middle Ages, Ancient Greece and Renaissance, the dialogue between the author and the distant reader, and finally, the dialogue between the poet's diverse selves. The latter is called “lyrical hermaphroditism” and described in its multiple incarnations, including “ogorchennyi i uteshitel', mat’ i ditia, sudiia i podsudimyi, sobstvennik i nishchii.“ Mandel'shtam's “lyrical hermaphroditism” does not signify a Platonic ideal of androgynous wholeness, a reconciliation of two polarities.

Mandel'shtam's Farewell to Marina Tsvetaeva: “Ne veria voskresen'ia chudu”

Slavic Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ieva Vitins
Keyword(s):  
Osip Mandel'shtam ◽  
Marina Tsvetaeva ◽  
Boris Godunov ◽  
The City

… tak znai zhe: tvoi Dmitrii Davno pogib, zaryt — i ne voskresnet.A. S. Pushkin, Boris Godunov“Ne veria voskresen'ia chudu” is the last of the three poems that Osip Mandel'shtam addressed to Marina Tsvetaeva. The poets had met briefly in Koktebel' in the summer of 1915; they were reintroduced that December in Petrograd, and soon after Mandel'shtam made the first of several visits to Tsvetaeva in Moscow. He responded to her gift of the city, “Iz ruk moikh — nerukotvornyi grad/ Primi, moi strannyi, moi prekrasnyi brat” and to the affection of her “Otkuda takaia nezhnost'” with “V raznogolositse devicheskogo khora,” a celebration of his companion against the wondrously integrated Russo-Italian backdrop of the old capital. But in his next poem to her, “Na rozval'niakh ulozhennykh solomoi,” a sinister note is heard that relates their friendship to a darker side of Moscow's past, to Tsvetaeva's identification with Marina Mnishek and to his own confused identity at her side.

Synthetic Nationality: Mandel'shtam and Chaadaev

Slavic Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-610
Author(s):  
Clare Cavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Growing Up ◽  
Osip Mandel'shtam ◽  
The One

“A world that is your own must be created for you since the one you inhabit has become foreign to you.”Petr Chaadaev, “Second Philosophical Letter”In "The Whisper of History and the Noise of Time in the Writings of Osip Mandel'shtam" Gregory Freidin writes that "only a cultural orphan growing up in the revolutionary years could possess such an insatiable need for a continuous construction of a gigantic vision of culture meant to compensate for the impossibility of belonging to a single place." Freidin's richly suggestive remark hints at both the nature of and the reasons for Mandel'shtam's "orphandom," and the means by which he sought to surmount or circumvent his pervasive homelessness and achieve a "homeland, a house, a hearth" in culture.

The Poetic Style of Osip Mandel'shtam

1973 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-43
Author(s):  
Lidia Ginzburg
Keyword(s):  
Osip Mandel'shtam ◽  
Poetic Style
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