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Portraits Without Frames

Lev Ozerov


  • Granta (Faber)
Lev Ozerov''s finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive mini-encyclopedia of Soviet culture.

ISBN 9781783784714 | E | TPB
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Publisher Granta (Faber)
ISBN 9781783784714
Publication date November 2018
Edition Trade Pb
Dimensions mm
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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Lev Ozerov''s finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive mini-encyclopedia of Soviet culture. Composed in delicate, rhythmic free verse, Ozerov''s portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry.