#The Last Days of Mandestam

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The living dead man: The Last Days of Mandelstam by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

The living dead man: The Last Days of Mandelstam by Vénus Khoury-Ghata @seagullbooks

The premise is very simple. It is December 1938. As the year draws to a close, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam lies on the very edge of death in a transit camp near Vladivostok. There he will die, far from his beloved Moscow, away from the friends who have either abandoned him or confronted their own tragic circumstances, and separated from his devoted wife Nadezhda. His body will be tossed into a…