Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her life with Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. Hope Against Hope is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. But it is also a profound inspiration - a love story that relates the daily struggle to keep both love and art alive in the most desperate circumstances.

该书以1997年俄罗斯出版的《曼杰什坦姆诗全集》为蓝本，参照其它文集和全集，对出现异文的版本择善而从，收入诗人的全部作品500余首，其中既包括他一生最重要的代表作——呈现了史诗性意味的《石头集》、《TRISTIA》、《沃罗涅日诗抄》，也收录有他不经意写下的那些打油诗、戏谑诗和寓言诗。

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Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Mandelstam's last poems, written in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, are an extraordinary testament to the endurance of art in the presence of terror. This book represents a collaboration between the scholar Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America's finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam's "Conversation on Dante," an uncategorizable work of genius containing the poet's deepest reflections on the nature of the poetic process.

曼德尔施塔姆是俄罗斯白银时代最卓越的天才诗人。他的诗形式严谨，格律严整，优雅的古典韵味中充满了浓厚的历史文明气息和深刻的道德意识，并具有强烈的悲剧意味。智量的译本语言优雅，节奏分明，读之朗朗上口，再现曼德尔施塔姆俄语原诗中深厚、细腻的感情，与原著形神俱备。