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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Leiter, Sharon

Titel

The Terror and the War

Ist Teil von

• Akhmatova's Petersburg, 2018, p.83-112

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• From the mid-1920s, when her fifteen-year period of reduced poetic productivity began,¹ until her death in 1966, Leningrad remained both Akhmatova’s official residence and the locus of her spiritual drama. From the 1950s onward, she came to spend a great deal of her time living “secretly” with friends in Moscow, because, she once explained to Amanda Haight, “Moscow loves me, Leningrad does not love me.”² Yet it was the old capital whose image dominated the great synthetic vision of human history which obsessed the last quarter century of her life, her “Petersburg Tale,”Poem without a Hero.While she was