An edition of Less Than One (2011)
Less Than One
Selected Essays
By Joseph Brodsky
Publish Date
May 12, 2020
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
eng
Pages
512
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.