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Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: 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 emigre writer. There is also the humorous tale of a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, a homage to Marcus…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: oseph Brodsky was a great contrarian and believed, against the received wisdom of our day, that good writing could survive translation. He was right, I think, though you had to wonder when you saw how badly his own work fared in English. But then perhaps the Russians hadn't expelled a great poet so much as exposed us to one of their virulent personality cults. Yet Brodsky's essays are…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters — each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly 20 years) — «Watermark» associatively and brilliantly evokes one city's…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott — three Nobel laureates and threeof our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround one of America's most famous and beloved deceased poets — Robert Frost.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: »A Part of Speech» contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.