Talk:Osip Mandelstam
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Nope. White Russian has a direct, explicit political meaning here, jheijmans, which will become apparent as I develop this text. Reverting with extreme prejudice.user:sjc
OK, I await your edit with interest; I assume it has something to do with the White and other Bolshevists? (I cannot exactly recall the names, but I do remember that name.) If so, please make clearly what his nationality was (Soviet/Russian), as "White Russia" makes me (and others) think he's from Belarus, which wasn't even a (independent) country at the time. Jeronimo 03:42 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)
- Correct. Full biographical details will put down his birth details, etc. It is just a marker to me at the moment to detail the WR aspect. He certainly wasn't Belarus; as a geo-political entity it had no real existence at the time. I have put a tbc marker on this article for now. PS: the Whites weren't communist at all. They were pro-Czarists... user:sjc
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- Hmm there are 37 or so edits to this page since I last visited it and it says less than when I left it. I begin to draw my conclusions about the ultimate viability of the wikipedia model. Sjc 03:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anti-Stalin epigram
May I question the wisdom of including the second-class political verses into the article? I second Nabokov in that the abominable poem doesn't adequately represent the genius of Mandelstam. Could we have something earlier and less disingenuous? --Ghirla -трёп- 17:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
It is not his best poem but the translation is dreadful. A better one would be worth including because it's an important poem and always relevant, particularly now, but a more thorough sampling of his work is also in order, particularly "In Petersburg we will meet again..." would be a good choice, as well as some of his better prose, "Noise of Time" and "Morning of Acmeism" come to mind. I will attempt to expand the article to give the reader a better sense of his genius. (JordanBowen 20:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC))
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