Chukovskaya .:. The Akhmatova Journals [1]

Chukovskaya, Lydia,
The Akhmatova Journals. Volume I, 1938-41. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. 310 Seiten mit Abbildungen und Register. Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Grossoktav.

---

Bestell-Nr.156641

---

Chukovskaya | Biographien Literatur | Literaturgeschichte | Sekundaerliteratur | Anna Akhmatova | Slawistik

---

ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966) was one of the greatest Russian poets of this century, the contemporary and equal of Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. But during her life she was subjected to scathing critical attacks, denounced as "half-nun, half-whore," and then expelled from the Writers' Union. Akhmatova also endured severe personal losses: her first husband (the poet Nikolai Gumilyov) was executed, their son imprisoned, and another husband died in a prison camp. Akhmatova's friend Lydia Chukovskaya kept intimate diaries of her conversations with the great poet. First published in the U.S.S.R. in 1987, The Akhmatova Journals offers a rare look into the day-to-day life of Akhmatova: her fortunes and sorrows, the evolution of her writing, her inspiration and imagination. With 54 poems newly trans-lated into English by Peter Norman, Chukovskaya's memoir is a vital record of a deepening friendship between two women writers, as well as a testament to a poet's life and the cultural life of a nation.

---

CONTENTS
List of illustrations vii
Instead of a Foreword 3
1938 9
1939 13
1940 51
In the Interim 181
1941 187
Anna Akhmatova's Poems 195
But strong are the bolts
of prison gates" 245
Behind the Scenes 249
1938: Nos. 1-2 251
1939: Nos. 3-39 252
1940: Nos. 40-99 265
1941: Nos. 100-102 286
Publisher's Glossary 287
Index 297

---