Bøger af Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) fik sit gennembrud i 1912 med digtsamlingen ”Aften” og blev en toneangivende hovedskikkelse i den russiske sølvalder, der bl.a. omfatter navne som Osip Mandelsjtam, Marina Tsvetajeva, Vladimir Majakovskij og Boris Pasternak. Hendes rigt facetterede kærlighedstematik udfolder sig i en suveræn syntese mellem klassisk og modernistisk formsprog.Akhmatovas digtcyklus Requiem, som blev til over det meste af tre decennier, er i sit udgangspunkt selvbiografisk. Det er forfatterens gribende vidnesbyrd og skamstøtte over Stalintidens rædsler. Men selv efter diktatorens død var Akhmatovas navn forkætret og fortiet. Requiem blev til at begynde med udbredt fra mund til mund og via samizdat (dvs. selvudgivelse; afskrifter). Sidenhen udkom der censurerede uddrag i sovjetiske antologier m.m., og kun i Vesten kunne det læses i sin helhed, såvel på russisk som i talrige oversættelser. Først i 1987 udkom det uforkortet i Sovjetunionen. I dag har det en uanfægtet klassikerstatus i Rusland og er blevet sat i musik af en lang række tonekunstnere.Requiem udkommer her for første gang i sin helhed på dansk.

"To eller tre generationer af russere blev forelsket til akkompagnement af Akhmatovas digte."Sådan beskrev en af tidens kritikere hendes umådelige popularitet. Men efterhånden som det 20. århundredes katastrofer væltede ind over Rusland og resten af verden, fik Akhmatovas poesi dybere og mørkere klange. Hun blev en af sovjettidens forkætrede og fortiede, men alligevel aldrig helt glemte kunstnere. I dag er hendes position på det russiske parnas højere end nogensinde før, og nye læsere verden over får øjnene op for hendes poesi, med dens sublime udtryk for lidenskab, sorg, vrede og forsoning.Dette udvalg er sammensat af digte fra de i alt syv samlinger, som udkom eller var klar til udgivelse i Akhmatovas levetid, suppleret med et par efterladte strofer. Der er i udvalget en overvægt af værker fra den første halvdel af Akhmatovas oeuvre, men når det kombineres med de to sene hovedværker, digtsuiterne Requiem (2019) og Poem uden helt (som er under forberedelse), vil der være balance i den danske præsentation af hendes livsværk.Pressen skrev om Requiem:"Sikke dog poesi kan hysse smukt og storslået!" Lars Bukdahl, Weekendavisen"En afgørende stemme i en poesi på liv og død." Peter Laugesen Information"Billedsprogmættede mareridtsvisioner", "Viser hvilken fremragende digter Akhmatova er." Peter Stein Larsen, Kristeligt Dagblad

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFYAnna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities.

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was part of that magnificent and tragic generation of Russian artists which came to first maturity before 1917, and which then had to come to terms with official discouragement and often persecution. You Will Hear Thunder brings together for the first time all D.M. Thomas's translations of her poems.

A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her "eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was "beautiful clarity”—in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers' Union—condemned as "half nun, half harlot.” Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russia's most beloved poets. Here are poems from all her major works—including the magnificent "Requiem” commemorating the victims of Stalin's terror—and some that have been newly translated for this edition.

Anna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she maintained an elegant, muscular style that could grab a reader by the throat at a moment's notice. Defined by tragedy and beauty in equal measure, her poems take on romantic frustration and the pull of the sensory, and find power in the mundane. Above all, she believed that a Russian poet could only produce poetry in Russia. You Will Hear Thunder spans Akhmatova's very early career into the early 1960s. These poems were written through her bohemian prerevolution days, her many marriages, the terror and privation of life under Stalin, and her later years, during which she saw her work once again recognized by the Soviet state. Intricately observed and unwavering in their emotional immediacy, these strikingly modern poems represent one of the twentieth century's most powerful voices.

Expressing the collective grief for the thousands vanished under Josef Stalin's regime, "Requiem" chronicles Akhmatova's seventeen-month wait for news of her imprisoned son's fate, while "Poem without a Hero" chronicles the transformation of vibrant St. Petersburg into oppressive Leningrad and the pain of those left behind.

Sensitive new translations of Akhmatova's great long poems that document both intense personal suffering and cataclysmic national tragedy

A broad collection of Akhmatova's poetry from the earlier period of her career, plus a more constrained selection of poems from later years

The greatest, most comprehensive, and best translated edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most relevant poets.

From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary life.