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by: Joseph Brodsky See Larger Image List Price: $20.00 Amazon.com's Price: $13.60 You Save: $6.40 (32%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 809.104 EAN: 9780374520557 ISBN: 0374520550 Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: May 01, 1987 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sales Rank: 404668 Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Related Items: On Grief and Reason: Essays Collected Poems in English Watermark The Practice of Everyday Life Joseph Brodsky: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the 'Third Wave' of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted by their inability to write in English, Brodsky consumed the language to attain a 'closer proximity' to poets such as Auden. The book, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, opens and closes with revealing autobiographical essay. Amazon.com Review: This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the 'Third Wave' of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted by their inability to write in English, Brodsky consumed the language to attain a 'closer proximity' to poets such as Auden. The book, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, opens and closes with revealing autobiographical essays. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - The prose of a poet has poetry in it This collection of essays is by one of the great Russian poets of this century. In it he writes of his life and poetry, and of those poets who have meant much to him. His memoir of his separation from his parents, their twelve - year effort to reunite while being refused by the Soviet Authorities is a tale of sadness, and pain. I have just read the essay on Nadezhda Mandelstamm and through it received an insight into her life and literature. At the age of sixty- five never really having written ... Read More Rating: - HONEST LANGUAGE MEANS FREEDOM I translated this book into Hebrew and it was published by sifriat poalim. For a reader of the old testament in the original freedom and language are one and the same. Giora Leshem Rating: - Erudite, unsentimental and moving Primarily known as a poet this volume shows that Joseph Brodsky was also a splendid essayist and his interests varied and his attention to detail deep and probing. Dealing with the trauma of exile his remembrance of things past is like the educational adventure of a long furlough from love and his country submerged in totalitarianism with his mentors either imprisoned, declawed or dead is still the theme upon which he is emotionally impaled. He seems disgusted by America and in love with his disgust, ... Read More Rating: - Less Than One: Selected Essays When Joseph Brodsky emigrated to the United States in 1972 as an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union, he probably believed that he'd see his parents again, that political circumstances would inevitably change. Moreover, it is only natural to believe that a forced "political" separation from one's parents could not last for long. His parents spent their final years hoping against hope that they'd see their beloved son one more time-a death wish before dying. But that faithful dream never materialized. "I ... Read More Rating: - Highly recommended insight into Soviet life Brodsky's words flow with the gentle ease of a boat ride on a sunny sunday afternoon, until you find yourself floundering at the bottom of a crashing waterfall. Repeated re-readings of the 'waterfall' line do little to lessen the impact. Brodsky holds nothing back, as he brings his mighty pen to bear against the soviet government that exiled him, and would not allow either of his parents to visit him in the remaining 12 years of their lives. see more

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