Mandelštamova adresa. Báseň jako vzkaz v láhvi
Mandelstam’s Address. A Poem as a Message in a Bottle

Summary/Abstract: The message in a bottle forms the mental structure of most of Mandelstam’s work. From his initial essay On A Partner in A Dialogue (1913), where he compares a poem to a letter in a bottle thrown to a sea by a shipwrecked sailor, to his final Conversation about Dante , first published in 1967, this metaphor creates the basic focus of his poems. For Mandelstam, a poem becomes a message in a bottle thrown into the sea in the hope that the mes sage will be found. The article deals with Mandelstam’s idea of poetry, based on dialogue in t ime, on the ability of a poem to deliver a message and transfer it from one time to another, as a message in a bottle does. The article interprets Mandelstam’s poetic work through the prism of his essays.

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