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Russia: “Anti-Akhmatova”

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Arts & Culture, History, Language, Literature

Languor Management writes [1] about Tamara Katayeva's “600-page assault on the literary legacy Anna Akhmatova”: “This reminds me of Emma Gerstein's Moscow Memoirs, which was supposed to have debunked Nadehzda and Osip Mandelshtam's literary legacy, and really just portrayed them as particularly difficult people going through particularly hard times.”