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Portraits Without Frames

Portraits Without Frames

Ozerov, Lev
Boris
Chandler, Robert

Paperback

Literary FiguresGeneral PoetryRussian History

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1681372681
ISBN13: 9781681372686
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Dec 4 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Isaac Babel, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Anna Akhmatova star in this series of portraits of some of the greatest writers, artists, and composers of the twentieth century.

We stopped and Shklovsky told me / quietly, but clearly, / 'Remember, we are on our way out. / On our way out.' And I recalled / ... the wall of books, / all written by a man / who lived / in times that were hard to bear.

Lev Ozerov's Portraits Without Frames offers fifty shrewd and moving glimpses into the lives of Soviet writers, composers, and artists caught between the demands of art and politics. Some of the subjects--like Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Babel, Andrey Platonov, and Dmitry Shostakovich--are well-known, others less so. All are evoked with great subtlety and vividness, as is the fraught and dangerous time in which they lived. Composed in free verse of deceptively artless simplicity, Ozerov's portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry.

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