"And I'll Only be Killed by a Peer". (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Surat, Irina
• Is Part Of: Russian studies in literature. Volume 53:Number 1(2017)
• Page Start: 79
• Page End: 88
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Periodicals; 891.7
• DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2017.1350062
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1061-1975

Abstract

Abstract : In a less formal article, Irina Surat parses the words and history of Osip Mandelstam's poem "The Wolf, " mostly written in 1930, to identify the significance of its final line, which the poet settled on only in 1935. The discussion ends by citing a stanza from "Facing Nature, " a 1975 poem by Aleksandr Eremenko, which builds on Mandelstam's poem in much the same way as Mandelstam's builds on writings by Nikolai Gumilev and Aleksandr Pushkin.