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L'horizon Est En Feu: Cinq Poètes Russes Du X Xe Siècle: Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvétaïéva, Brodsky

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Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvétaïéva, Brodsky... Ces cinq poètes représentent à eux seuls la moitié de la ligne de crête de la poésie russe du XXᵉ siècle. D'où cet intitulé, emprunté à un vers d'Alexandre Blok : "L'horizon est en feu". Ce recueil, qui se présente comme un parcours foudroyant plutôt que comme une anthologie, capte en effet l'énergie désespérée, mais portée à sa plus haute intensité, de poètes jetés dans une tourmente historique d'une ampleur jusque-là inconnue. Cinq créateurs singuliers risquent ainsi leur parole et leur vie : la poésie n'étant pas ici un jeu formel, un ornement ou une coquetterie, mais un choix existentiel, à bien des égards cruel, voire fatal.

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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Joseph Brodsky

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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.

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"Plus tendrement et sans retour / Nul regard n'a suivi votre trace. / Je vous embrasse, - sans compter / les kilomètres qui nous espacent."
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