М. М. Джатдоева

THE THIRD AND LAST DEDICATION TO ANNA AKHMATOVA'S POEM WITHOUT A HERO: BIOGRAPHICAL SUBTEXT AND SEMANTICS OF SILENCE

The most convincing, though not absolutely provable, reading of The Third and Last Dedication to Poem Without a Hero connects it with Isaiah Berlin. This attribution is based not on a single document, but on the convergence of several lines of evidence: the text's dating from January 5, 1956; the "non-husband" motif, w...