Evening (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798298203807)

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Akhmatova was born in 1899, well-educated, of a noble, land-owning family. Evening was published in 1912, when she was twenty-three. It inaugurated a new epoch in Russian poetry. Each poem condenses into a few lucid stanzas the emotional depth one might expect in a psychological novel. Nothing like it had ever been seen, in Russia or elsewhere. It sold out edition after edition, and became the Bible of Russian lovers.
The book found many imitators among literary ladies. Told, "You have given Russian womankind a voice!" Akhmtova replied, "Yes, but now how do I get them to shut up?"
Akhmatova had a gift for depicting physical things in a way that carried psychological meaning. But she was not simply manufacturing metaphors. Her images have a photographic precision that makes them too concrete to be simply symbols. And they are not photographs, because they capture not a moment, but a narrative. They have a momentum. Akhmatova's imagery is cinematic.

Author: Seraphina Powell,Anna Akhmatova
ISBN-13: 9798298203807
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d