Watermark: An Essay on Venice - Softcover

Brodsky, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141391499 ISBN 13: 9780141391496

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2013

Synopsis

'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor' Wall Street Journal

Watermark is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, Brodsky captures its magnificence and beauty, and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters, as he remembers friends, lovers and enemies he has encountered. Above all, he reflects with great poetic force on how the rising tide of time affects city and inhabitants alike.

Watermark is an unforgettable piece of writing, and a wonderful evocation of a remarkable, unique city.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

About this title

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. Brodsky's other collection of essays Less Than One is being reissued alongside On Grief and Reason in Penguin Modern Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0141391499
• ISBN 13: 9780141391496
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144