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Abstract
Irina Surat examines the poetry written during Osip Mandelstam’s two years of exile in Voronezh, finding that its precise evocations of space provide the terms that can be used to analyze the poems. This helps Mandelstam to address exile as a personal experience and a poetic trope, as well as to assert imaginatively his connections with the wider world—both in Soviet space and farther afield. Geography (taken through the filter of Dante’s Inferno, etc.) expresses the poetic connections that support his internal freedom, moving (as Surat puts it) from real space into an open space of imagination.
期刊介绍:
Russian Studies in Literature publishes high-quality, annotated translations of Russian literary criticism and scholarship on contemporary works and popular cultural topics as well as the classics. Selections are drawn from the leading literary periodicals including Literaturnaia gazeta (Literary Gazette), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review), Oktiabr (October), Voprosy literatury (Problems of Literature), and Znamia (Banner). An editorial introduction to every issue provides context and insight that will be helpful for English-language readers.