Collected prose works by one of Russia's towering literary figuresOsip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's biographer, Clarence Brown, presents a collection of the poet's prose works that ...
Collected prose works by one of Russia's towering literary figuresOsip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's biographer, Clarence Brown, presents a collection of the poet's prose works that illuminates Mandelstam's far-ranging talent and places him within the canon of European modernism.This volume includes Mandelstam's "The Noise of Time, " a series of autobiographical sketches; "The Egyptian Stamp, " a novella echoing Gogol and Dostoevsky; "Fourth Prose, " and the famous travel memoirs "Theodosia" and "Journey to Armenia."
Musical notation caresses the eye no less than music itself soothes the ear. The blacks of the piano scales climb up and down like lamplighters. Each measure is a little boat loaded with raisins and black grapes.
A page of music is, firstly, the deployment in battle of sailing flotillas and, secondly, the plan according to which night, arranged in plum pits, sinks.
The colossal arpeggiated descents in Chopin's mazurkas, the wide staircases festooned with bells in the Liszt etudes, Mozart's hanging gardens with parterres, trembling on five wires-- these have nothing in common wiht the undersized shrubbery of the Beethoven sonatas.
The mirage cities of musical notation stand like starling houses in boiling pitch.
Schubert's vineyard of notes is always pecked right down to the seeds and... (查看原文)
Which tense do you want to live in?
-- I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle-- in the "what ought to be."
I feel like breathing that way. That's what I like. There exists such a thing as mounted, bandit-band, equestrian honor. That's why I like the fine Latin "gerundive"-- that verb on horseback.
Yes, the Latin genius, when it was young and greedy, created that from of imperative verbal traction as the prototype of our whole culture, and it was not the only thing that "ought to be" but the thing that "ought to be praised"-- laudatura est-- the thing we like...
The above was a conversation that I carried on with myself as I rode on horseback among the natural boundaries, the nomads' territories, and the gigantic pastures of Alagez.
In Erevan Alagez stood th... (查看原文)
0 有用 那颗晴空 2022-07-19 21:29:01
强力推荐这部英译。应该说英语基本过关的话，看这一本反倒会比目前国内的两三种汉译轻松。
0 有用 小岛 2020-08-27 20:38:25
@2012-11-13 13:29:09