Nadezhda Mandelstam's Tret'ya kniga

[ANDREW W REYNOLDS]

Dear Margo,

 The material in this volume (ed. by Yuri Freidin) contains for the most part work that was published before, in the 1982 collection Moe zaveshchanie i drugie esse (NY) and Kniga tret'ia (Paris, 1987). So the essay Motsart and Salieri from it is available in English, and short selections from some of the materials from NYaM's commentaries to the poems of 1930-1937 may be found in the notes to the Mckanes Moscow and Voronezh Notebooks. Moreover, as Jennifer Baines notes, this commentary was "the source material for a large proportion" of her 1976 book Mandelstam: The Later Poetry. It's possible that some of these shorter pieces have appeared in journals, but I  don't have any information on this. It would certainly be highly desirable for all this material to be translated and published (for example, the 2006 Moscow edition has the most complete published  "variant" of the opening of Vtoraia kniga, given the title here of Dumaia ob A. A.)


 Andrew Reynolds
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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From: msr2003 at COLUMBIA.EDU
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2007 9:42 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Nadezhda Mandelstam's Tret'ya kniga
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> Esteemed Slavists,
> 
> This year a third book of Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoirs was
> published under the title "Tret'ya kniga."  It is described as
> being composed of materials that didn't make it into the first two
> books.  Does anyone know if the materials in "Tret'ya kniga" have
> been published in any form in English, either as part of the "Hope"
> series or separately?  If so, how can I get my hands on it? Please
> reply either on- or off-list, as you see fit.
> 
> Thanks,
> Margo Rosen
> msr2003 at columbia.edu
> 
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