It happens that the poet’s prose adds something important to his verses, but it happens the other way around - it can either enlarge the author’s scale in the readers, or remain an optional application to the poems. In the case of Osip Mandelstam, his ingenious prose, in my opinion, can compete with poetry with his inexhaustibility and depth; And on someone else's soil, where poetry loses its native magic and magic, the prose of Mandelstam, perhaps, beats his poems.
