by Maria Bloshteyn (Translator), Boris Dralyuk (Translator), Boris Dralyuk (Translator), Lev Ozerov (Author), Maria Bloshteyn (Translator), Robert Chandler (Translator), Irina Mashinki (Translator)
Lev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive mini-encyclopedia of Soviet culture. Composed in delicate, rhythmic free verse, Ozerov's portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 01
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 15 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1783784717
ISBN 13: 9781783784714
Book Overview: A classic of Russian poetry, comprising fifty portraits of the great creative figures (some of them celebrated, many of them disappeared or suppressed) of Soviet culture.