Less Than One: Selected Essays

Brodsky, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0374185034 / ISBN 13: 9780374185039

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Less Than One: Selected Essays

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

This collection of essays amply demonstrates the wide range of the poet's interests and includes essays on poetry, politics, and literature and his memoir of life in Leningrad

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.