Osip Mandelstam keyword-aidaccess portraits of particular places and

portraits of particular places and things

‘flotsam and jetsam

Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy

Hobsbawm emerges from these pages as a hard-headed and lucid political commentator whose dismissal of wishful thinking and party chauvinism never deflects from an underlying commitment to the relevance of socialism for the 1990s

Osip Mandelstam keyword-aidaccess portraits of particular places andThis is the first full scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre revolutionary Russia to his final fate as a victim of Stalinism. The myth has grown up that Mandelstam was a gloomy, miserable figure; Dutli deconstructs this, stressing Mandelstam's enjoyment of life. There are several underlying themes here. One is Mandelstam's