Osip Mandelstam is one of the key figures in Russian culture of the 20th century, its very special and distinctive poetic voice. 'In the verbal craft, I value only wild meat, only crazy growth,' Mandelstam defined the peculiarity of his prose with its aphoristic, laconic, dense language fabric. This is, first of all, 'The Noise of Time', not a chronicle, but an oratorio of the era - and at the same time, deeply personal memories.