A review by rickmanreader
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandel’štam

5.0

I think Henry Gifford gets it right in his introduction:

Always, whether in verse or prose, he expects to be met with the ready perceptiveness that Dante, as Madelstam points out, so greatly valued. "You grasp things, on the wing, you are sensitive to allusions -- this is Dante's favorite form of praise."

Mandelstam in Journey to Armenia is always on the wing.