Clarence Brown is the author of several works on the Russian poet
Osip Mandelstam. He is editor of The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian
Reader, which contains his translation of Zamyatin’s short story “The
Cave,” and of Yury Olesha’s novel Enpy.
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