Less Than One
Subtitle: Selected Essays
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 12, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780374539054
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.
Notes: Source title: Less Than One: Selected Essays (FSG Classics)