"It's Time You Knew: I'm a Contemporary, Too … ". (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aizenberg, Mikhail
• Is Part Of: Russian studies in literature. Volume 54:Number 4(2018)
• Page Start: 241
• Page End: 258
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Periodicals; 891.7
• DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1622953
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1061-1975

Abstract

Abstract : This first part of a two-part publication holds four presentations from a roundtable on the poetry and continuing influence of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), with presentations by Mikhail Aizenberg, Vladimir Aristov, Leonid Vidgof and Konstantin Komarov. Aizenberg discusses the rising reputation of Mandelstam in the last three decades of the Soviet era; Aristov raises "problems and lessons" of Mandelstam, often in a transnational literary context; Vidgof addresses what makes Mandelstam "contemporary" to this day, particularly as a Jewish poet; Komarov briefly considers the "dreadful providentialism" of Mandelstam's writing and the connections of his work to poets who are writing now.