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'Genius ... bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus Heaney

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam. These are contrasted with his reflections on larger themes of tyranny and evil, and subtle evocations of his childhood in Leningrad. Brodsky's insightful appreciation of the intricacies of language, culture and identity connect these works, revealing his remarkable gifts as a prose writer.

'Sparkles with intellect, and combines the precision of scholarship with the passion of the poet' The Times

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

'Genius ... bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus Heaney

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam. These are contrasted with his reflections on larger themes of tyranny and evil, and subtle evocations of his childhood in Leningrad. Brodsky's insightful appreciation of the intricacies of language, culture and identity connect these works, revealing his remarkable gifts as a prose writer.

'Sparkles with intellect, and combines the precision of scholarship with the passion of the poet' The Times

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Über den Autor
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 On Grief and Reason is being reissued alongside Less than One in Penguin Modern Classics.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Penguin Modern Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141196510
ISBN-10: 0141196513
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brodsky, Joseph
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Modern Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 200 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Joseph Brodsky
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2011
Gewicht: 0,36 kg
Artikel-ID: 107031373

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