Journey to Armenia Alexandra Pirici Aus dem Englischen von Heribert

Aus dem Englischen von Heribert Becker und Edmund Jacoby

as when iron is drawn to a magnet

she plunged from the window of the thirty-fourth floor Greenwich Village apartment she shared with her husband

Edited by Kurt Almqvist

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Journey to Armenia Alexandra Pirici Aus dem Englischen von HeribertAt once a travel narrative, an allegorical journey, a withering comment on State Building, a humanist philosophy of life, a preparation for death and a prophecy of resurrection (both for Armenia and for himself), this breathtaking, elliptical prose first appeared in the Soviet magazine Zvezda in 1933. Journey was the last piece Mandelstam saw published, and it takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature Bruce