Brodsky on SAMIZDAT

[Olga Meerson]

I remember Akhmatova (acc. to both Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandel'stam) saying, about Samizdat, and even the pre-Samizdat period of memorizing poems to immortalize them, "we live in a pre-Gutenberg era". (Мы живем в догутенберговскую эпоху).
o.m.

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