Memories. In 2 books. Mandelstam N.Ya.

Powerful prose writer, a master of accurate and aphoristic formulations, a brilliant linguist, an interesting artist, equal to the interlocutor of the greatest poets of the century, Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (1899-1980) wrote not enlightened, but bloody and terrible books, showing the reader with burning directness and fearless sincerity , in what abysses the twentieth century man fell. “Memories” are devoted to the life and death in one of the Far Eastern camps of her husband-the great poet of the present Osip Mandelstam.

Memoirs of the second book represent a wide panorama of literary and public life of the 1910-1960s. But their main hero, of course, Osip Mandelstam is one of the most brilliant poets of the XX century.