Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... Mandelstam , then under suspicion for having recited a savage poem attacking ' the Kremlin Mountaineer ' at a small ... Mandelstam had read the poem . Pasternak equivocated ; Stalin pressed him . Was Mandelstam a great poet , a master ...
... Mandelstam , then under suspicion for having recited a savage poem attacking ' the Kremlin Mountaineer ' at a small ... Mandelstam had read the poem . Pasternak equivocated ; Stalin pressed him . Was Mandelstam a great poet , a master ...
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... Mandelstam kept alive a fierce conviction that the tyranny that had divided them from Paris , London and Berlin would not endure for ever . As Mandelstam wrote in 1933 in his poem ' Ariosto ' : It's cold in Europe , Italy is dark , And ...
... Mandelstam kept alive a fierce conviction that the tyranny that had divided them from Paris , London and Berlin would not endure for ever . As Mandelstam wrote in 1933 in his poem ' Ariosto ' : It's cold in Europe , Italy is dark , And ...
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... Mandelstam , The Eyesight of Wasps , trans . James Greene ( London , 1989 ) , 78 . The beard - shaver is a reference to Peter the Great . 12 Mandelstam , Hope Against Hope , 8-12 , 14-17 , 20 , 30 . 13 Hemschemeyer , 388 . 14 ...
... Mandelstam , The Eyesight of Wasps , trans . James Greene ( London , 1989 ) , 78 . The beard - shaver is a reference to Peter the Great . 12 Mandelstam , Hope Against Hope , 8-12 , 14-17 , 20 , 30 . 13 Hemschemeyer , 388 . 14 ...
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