Portraits Without Frames

Portraits Without Frames
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Publisher : Granta Books
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781783784721
ISBN-13 : 1783784725
Rating : 4/5 (725 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Portraits Without Frames by : Lev Ozerov

Download or read book Portraits Without Frames written by Lev Ozerov and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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