Дитя цивилизации. Эссе

by Joseph Brodsky, Max Nemtsov (Translator), Lev Losev (Translator)

В книгу вошли эссе Иосифа Бродского, посвященные русским поэтам и писателям — Анне Ахматовой, Осипу Мандельштаму, Марине Цветаевой, Федору Достоевскому, Андрею Платонову и др. Бродский размышляет о прошлом и будущем русской литературы, о ее традициях и художественных исканиях. Большинство эссе, за исключением двух, были написаны по-английски и публикуются в переводе на русский язык. Они входили в сборник «Less Than One» («Меньше единицы»), изданный в 1986 году. Три эссе, написанные Бродским позднее, печатаются в приложении.

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Бродский] was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and Mount Holyoke. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." A journalist asked him: "You are an American citizen who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American or a Russian?" Brodsky replied: "I'm Jewish; a Russian poet, an English essayist – and, of course, an American citizen." He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.