{"product_id":"contra-toda-a-esperanca","title":"Against all hope","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"578\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eThis was intellectual and political life in the Soviet Union under the Stalinist regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"578\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eFirst published in the West in 1970, it is both a personal memoir and a historical document of cultural oppression and the persecution of writers and artists during the 1930s and 1940s in the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"578\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eNadejda, the widow of the poet Osip Mandelstam, gives us the meticulous and painful details of the years of persecution that culminated in her husband's arrest and death in 1938 in a forced labour camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1158\" data-start=\"580\"\u003eDeprived of freedom and material means, Nadejda devoted herself to preserving Osip's memory and reconstructing his poetry by heart, as much of the manuscripts had been destroyed to keep them out of the hands of the police.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1158\" data-start=\"580\"\u003e“Our life was spent in the shadow of death.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1158\" data-start=\"580\"\u003eThis was the atmosphere of constant fear in which she lived. An essay on the nature of tyranny and moral resistance. Memory as a weapon against oblivion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1158\" data-start=\"580\"\u003eWhen was the last time you learned something by heart?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1158\" data-start=\"580\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNadejda Mandelstam, 1899 ... 1980: \u003c\/strong\u003eSaratov, Russia, Jewish. She studied art and literature and became the inseparable companion of the poet Osip Mandelstam, one of the greatest names in 20th-century Russian poetry. After her husband's death, she lived in precarious conditions, often in hiding, but never gave up preserving his work and bearing witness to the atrocities of Stalinism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1844\" data-start=\"1160\"\u003eIn addition to \u003cem data-end=\"1615\" data-start=\"1590\"\u003eAgainst All Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, she also wrote \u003cem data-end=\"1655\" data-start=\"1633\"\u003eAbandoned Hope,\u003c\/em\u003e about terror and memory. She left us much of what we need to understand the Soviet 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imprensa da Universidade de Lisboa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51598287864074,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/frente_nadejda_mandelstam.jpg?v=1754332412","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/contra-toda-a-esperanca","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}