Dvě knihy vzpomínek

The memoirs of the wife of one of the greatest modern Russian poets, Osip Mandelstam, who was murdered in a Communist concentration camp in 1938, are, alongside the works of Solzhenitsyn, the most powerful and shocking record of the calvary through which people who thought differently from the regime's rabble-rousers passed in the Soviet Union. Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstamova (1899-1980), an educated, proud, and unyielding chronicler of unprecedented spiritual oppression and defiance, a denouncer of conformists and traitors, and a preserver of her husband's artistic legacy, was a beacon of free thought in the Soviet power camp, and her two books, published in one volume for the first time in the Czech Republic, are both a monument and a living testament to the people and the person.

Czech edition