Product details
ISBN
9780241952719
Published
2011
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
313 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
24 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
432
Author
Biographical note
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 Less Than One is being reissued alongside On Grief and Reason in Penguin Modern Classics.'His prose has the energy and precision of a master, and, at times, the moral authority of a prophet'
Washington Post
'One of the English language's great essayists ... a book to be thankful for'
The Times
In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the émigré writer. There is also the humorous tale of a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, a homage to Marcus Aurelius and studies of Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Horace and others. The second volume of essays following Less Than One, this collection includes Brodsky's 1987 Nobel Lecture, 'Uncommon Visage'.
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A collection of essays, that casts a reflective eye on the author's experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With erudition, it explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writer. It also includes a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, and more.
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Product details
ISBN
9780241952719
Published
2011
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
313 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
24 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
432
Author