Less Than One: Selected Essays (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover
Joseph Brodsky's uniquely penetrating appreciations of favourite writers, including Dostoevsky (and the development of Russian prose), Auden, Ahkmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam. This collection also includes evocations of his early life, profound reflections on tyranny and the nature of Evil, and illuminating meditations on Leningrad and Istanbul.
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This collection of Brodsky's essays displays the full range of interests; poetic, literary, political and historical. Essays on writers deal with Akhmatova, Tsvetneva and Madlestam, as well as western poets like Auden, Montale, Cavafy and Derek Walcott. In "Catalogues in the Art", Brodsky addresses the history and future of Russian prose, and in "On Tyranny" and "Flight from Byzantium", he offers meditations on history and the modern age.
About the Author:
JOSEPH BRODSKY died in January 1996. His last post was Five Colleges Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. In 1987 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many of his books are published by Penguin, including Watermark and To Urania: Selected Poems.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0141180110
- ISBN 13 9780141180113
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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