The second book. Mandelstam N.Ya.

“Second Book” represents a wide panorama of literary and social life of the 1910-1960s. The master of accurate and sharp formulations, equal to the interlocutor of the greatest poets of the century, Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam reveals a reader with the burning directness in what abysses the twentieth century man fell.

“The second book”, even more sharp, biased and angry than “Memories”, is not just the reconstruction of the biography of Osip Mandelstam and the preservation of his memory - this is the verdict pronounced by the widow of the poet to the whole country and the era.