Clive James: “Akhmatova was the embodiment of the Russian liberal heritage that the authoritarians felt bound to go on threatening long after it had surrendered. As such, she was an inspiring symbol, but when a poet becomes better known than her poems, it usually means that she is being sacrificed, for extraneous reasons, on the altar of her own glory.”
Anna Akhmatova. Assessing the Russian poet and femme fatale.
February 6th, 2007 · Comments Off
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