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This collection of essays thrusts Joseph Brodsky--previously known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the Third Wave of Russian migr writers. Originally published the year before Brodsky received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Less Than One includes intimate literary essays and autobiographical pieces that evoke the daily discomfort of living under tyranny. His insights into the works of Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, and Platonov, as well as the non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant; Seamus Heaney said of Brodskys treatment of one of Audens most famous poems, There will be no greater paean to poetry as the breath and finer spirit of all human knowledge than Brodskys line-by-line commentary on September 1, 1939.Less than One, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, was Brodskys first published work of prose, and if theres an essential essay collection . . . its this one (The Guardian). This edition, reissued to mark Brodskys eightieth birthday, allows the reader to delve into the Nobel laureates mastery of language, through both his analysis of great works and his own brand of descriptive dissent, at a pivotal point in his career.About the AuthorJoseph Brodsky (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992. His books include Less Than One, On Grief and Reason, Selected Poems, and many others.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
