Publication

2020-05-12 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Word Count

128,000 words, Guess

Page Count

512 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPN1271 .B76 2020

Description

Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad. "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."--Provided by publisher.

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Other Editions

  • Less Than One: Selected EssaysPaperbackFarrar, Straus and Giroux2020-05-12

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