Less than one : selected essays

Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996)

ISBN 10: 0374185034 / ISBN 13: 9780374185039

Published by New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 501 pages ; 22cm. Subjects: Russian poetry -- History and criticism. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 306401

Bibliographic Details

Title: Less than one : selected essays

Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

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.