Portraits without Frames
New York: New York Review Books, 2018.
First printing. 258 pp., 5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Edited by Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk; translated by Maria Bloshteyn, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, and Irina Mashinski. An NYRB Classics Original. Remainder dot on bottom edge; otherwise as new. Item #4172
ISBN: 9781681372686
Out of print as of fall 2020.
"Fifty shrewd and moving glimpses into the lives of Soviet writers, composers, and artists caught between the demands of art and politics. Some of the subjects — like Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Babel, Andrey Platonov, and Dmitry Shostakovich — are well known, others less so. All are evoked with great subtlety and vividness, as is the fraught and dangerous time in which they lived. Composed in free verse of deceptively artless simplicity, Ozerov's portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry."
Price: $16.95