The Noise of Time (Shum Vremeni)

Mandelstam, Osip Emilievich — Russian poet, prose writer, translator, essayist.

He came from a St. Petersburg Jewish merchant family. He studied at the Tenishev School and was interested in the Socialist Revolutionary movement (memoir The Noise of Time, 1925). In 1907–08 he attended lectures in Paris, in 1909–10 in Heidelberg, and in 1911–17 studied Romance philology at St. Petersburg University (but did not complete the course).

Symbolism His first verse experiments in the populist style date from 1906; systematic work on poetry began in 1908, and his first publication appeared in 1910.…

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